Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, BOSTON, January 1, 1872..

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives :

In compliance with section sixty-two of chapter two hundred and twenty-four of the Acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy, I have the honor to submit herewith, for the information of the legislature, the following abstracts from the certificates of corporations required to be deposited in this office; namely:

An abstract from the certified returns of eighty-one corporations ORGANIZED within the Commonwealth in the year 1871, under section eleven of said chapter.

Of ten corporations RE-ORGANIZED under section twelve of the same chapter,

Of four corporations filing certificates of having heretofore ORGANIZED UNDER CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

Of fifty-nine corporations attesting the PAYMENT AND INVESTMENT OF CAPITAL STOCK under section thirty-two, and four companies, the payment of capital, as required by the General Statutes.

Of five hundred and thirty-eight corporations certifying the date of their respective last ANNUAL OF SEMI-ANNUAL meetings, the amount of capital stock then paid in, the name of each shareholder and the number of shares standing in his name, the amount invested in real estate and in personal estate, the price paid and the then estimated value thereof, the amount of property owned by, and of debts due to the corporation, and the amount of existing demands against said corporations, under section thirty-three.

Of thirty-one corporations certifying to an INCREASE OF CAPITAL, under section thirty-four.

Of five corporations certifying to a REDUCTION OF CAPITAL, under section thirty-five.

And of five corporations CONFIRMING their ORIGINAL ORGANIZATION, under section sixty-six of said chapter two hundred and twenty-four of 1870.

The General Statement appended to these abstracts gives the total amount invested during the year 1871, in incorporations under the present statute, amount of capital paid in, how invested, the amount of increase and of reduction of capital, and the condition of the several corporations whose annual returns have been received.

I am, very respectfully,

OLIVER WARNER, Secretary of the Commonwealth. .