TITLE XI. MINING CORPORATIONS. SECTION 584. Removal of the principal office provided for. 586. Transfer agencies. 587. Stock issued at transfer agencies. 584. Every mining corporation may change its principal place of business from one county or city to another, within this State. Before such removal is made the consent in writing of the holders of two thirds of the capital stock must be obtained and filed in the office of the corporation. When such consent is obtained, notice of the intended removal must be published for thirty days in some newspaper published at the principal place of business of the corporation, giving the name of the county or city where it is then situated, and that to which it is intended to remove it. NOTE.-Stats. 1863-4, p. 76, Sec. 1. 585. When the publication provided for in the preceding section has been completed, the Directors of the corporation must file in the offices of the Clerks of the counties from and to which such change has been made, and in the office of the Secretary of State, certified copies of the written consent of the stockholders to such change, and of the notice of such change, and proof of publication; also, a certificate that the proposed removal has taken place; and thereafter the principal place of business of the corporation is at the place to which it is removed. NOTE.-Stats. 1863-4, p. 76, Sec. 2. 586. Any corporation organized in this State for the purpose of mining or carrying on mining operations in or without this State, may establish and maintain agencies in other States of the United States, for the transfer and issuing of their stock; and a transfer Same. or issue of the same at any such transfer agency, in accordance with the provisions of its by-laws, is valid and binding as fully and effectually for all purposes as if made upon the books of such corporation at its principal office within this State. The agencies must be governed by the by-laws and the Directors of the corporation. NOTE.-Stats. 1863-4, p. 429, Secs. 1, 3. 587. All stock of any such corporation, issued at a NOTE.-Stats. 1863-4, p. 429, Sec. 2. An Act for the protection of Miners. [Enacting clause.] SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any corporation, association, owner, or owners of any quartz mining claims within the State of California, where such corporation, association, owner, or owners employ twelve men daily, to sink down into such mine or mines any perpendicular shaft or incline beyond a depth from the surface of three hundred feet without providing a second mode of egress from such mine, by shaft or tunnel, to connect with the main shaft at a depth of not less than one hundred feet from the surface. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of each corporation, association, owner, or owners of any quartz mine or mines in this State, where it becomes necessary to work such mines beyond the depth of three hundred feet, and where the number of men employed therein daily shall be twelve or more, to proceed to sink another shaft or construct a tunnel so as to connect with the main working shaft of such mine as a mode of escape from underground accident or otherwise. And all corporations, associations, owner, or owners of mines as aforesaid, working at a greater depth than three hundred feet, not Stock transfer issued at agencies. having any other mode of egress than from the main shaft, shall proceed as herein provided. SEC. 3. When any corporation, association, owner, or owners of any quartz mine in this State shall fail to provide for the proper egress as herein contemplated, and where any accident shall occur, or any miner working therein shall be hurt or injured, and from such injury might have escaped if the second mode of egress had existed, such corporation, association, owner or owners of the mine where the injuries shall have occurred, shall be liable to the person injured in all damages that may accrue by reason thereof; and an action at law in a Court of competent jurisdiction may be maintained against the owner or owners of such mine, which owners shall be jointly or severally liable for such damages. And where death shall ensue from injuries received from any negligence on the part of the owners thereof by reason of their failure to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, the heirs or relatives surviving the deceased may commence an action for the recovery of such damages as provided by an Act entitled an Act requiring compensation for causing death by wrongful act, neglect, or default, approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force six months from and after its passage. NOTE.-Stats. 1871-2, p. 443: An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act concerning corporations, passed twenty-second April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. [Approved March 21, 1872.] [Enacting clause.] SECTION 1. On petition of the majority of the shareholders of any corporation formed for the purpose of mining to the County Judge of the county where said corporation has its principal place of business, verified by the signers, to the effect that they are severally the holders on the books of the company of the number of shares set opposite their signatures to the foregoing petition, the County Judge shall issue his notice to the shareholders of said company that a meeting of the shareholders will be held, stating the time, not less than five nor more than ten days after the first publication of such notice, and the place of meeting within said county, and the object to be to take into consideration the removal of officers of said company; which notice, signed by the said County Judge, shall be published daily in one or more daily newspapers published in said county for at least five days before the time for the meeting. SEC. 2. At the time and place appointed by said notice those claiming to be shareholders who shall assemble shall proceed to organize by the appointment of a Chairman and Secretary, and thereupon those claiming to be shareholders shall present proof thereof, and only those showing a right to vote shall take part in the further proceedings. If it appears that at the time appointed, or within one hour thereafter, shareholders of less than one half the shares are present, no further proceedings shall be had, but the meeting shall be ipso facto dissolved; provided, however, that by a vote of the holders of two thirds of the capital stock of the corporations aforesaid, the Board of Trustees may be required to furnish to the meeting a written detailed statement and account of the affairs, business, and property of the corporation; but if the holders of more than two thirds of the shares are present they shall proceed to vote, the Secretary calling the roll and the members voting yea or no, as the case may be. The Secretary shall enter the same upon his list, and when he has added up the list and stated the result, he shall sign the same and hand it to the Chairman, who shall also sign the same and declare the result. SEC. 3. If the result of the vote is that the holders of a majority of all the shares of the company are in favor of the removal of one or more of the officers of the company, the meeting shall then proceed to ballot for officers to supply the vacancies thus created. Tellers shall be appointed by the Chairman, who shall collect the ballots and deliver them to the Secretary, who shall count the same in open session, and having stated the result of the count in writing, shall sign the same and hand it to the Chairman, who shall announce the result to the meeting. SEC. 4. A report of the proceedings of the meeting shall be made in writing, signed by the Chairman and Secretary and verified by them, and delivered to the County Judge, who shall thereupon issue to each person chosen a certificate of his election, and shall also issue an order requiring that all books, papers, and all property and effects be immediately delivered to the officers elect, and the petition and report, indorsed with the date and faet of the issuance of such certificate and order, shall be delivered to the County Clerk to be by him filed in his office, and thereafter the persons thus elected officers shall be the duly elected officers and hold office until the next regular annual meeting, unless removed under the provisions hereof. SEC. 5. For all services in these proceedings the County Clerk shall receive ten dollars on the issuance of the notice and ten dollars on the issuance of the certificates. SEC. 6. All Acts or parts of Acts conflicting with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect immediately. Corpora tions for purposes other than formed. TITLE XII. RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL, AND BENEVOLENT CORPORATIONS. SECTION 593. Corporations for purposes other than profit, how formed. 596. How much land Masons, Odd Fellows, and Pioneers may hold. 597. Directors to make verified report annually. 599. What may be provided for in their by-laws, etc. 601. No member to transfer membership, etc. 593. Any number of persons associated together for religious, social, benevolent, or other purpose inprofit, how cluded in the subdivisions of Section 286, where pecuniary profit is not their object, may, in accordance with the rules, regulations, or discipline of such association, elect Directors, the number thereof to be not less than three nor more than eleven, and may incorporate themselves as provided in this Part. NOTE.-Stats. 1870, p. 46; p. 402, Sec. 1. 594. In addition to the requirements of Section |