Section 484.152 - Telegraph companies; certificate of organization, contents, filingSuch persons, under their hands and seals, shall make a certificate which shall specify:
1st. The name assumed to distinguish such association, and to be used in its dealings, and by which it may sue and be sued;2nd. The general route of the line of telegraph, designating the points to be connected;3rd. The capital stock of such association, and the number of shares into which the stock shall be divided;4th. The names and places of residence of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each of them respectively;5th. The term of its existence, not to exceed 30 years; which certificate shall be proved or acknowledged, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where any office of such association shall be established, and a copy thereof filed in the office of the secretary of state; such acknowledgment may be taken by any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds of real estate, at the place where such acknowledgment is taken.1851, Act 59, Imd. Eff. 3/20/1851 ;--CL 1857, 2050 ;--CL 1871, 2626 ;--How. 3694 ;--CL 1897, 6668 ;--CL 1915, 8768 ;--CL 1929, 11664 ;--CL 1948, 484.152.