Excerpt from White's Manual for Business Corporations: Containing the General Corporation Law; The Stock Corporation Law; The Business Corporations Law; Provisions of the Tax Law, and Other Laws Concerning Such Corporations in the State of New York With Annotations and Forms The necessity for a convenient hand-book embodying a com plete and practical compilation of the laws of the State of New York concerning the organization, powers, management, assess ment and taxation of business corporations; the election, duties, and liabilities of directors and officers; the rights and liabilities of stockholders, and the many other important matters affecting such corporations, has induced the author to place this volume before the public. He has endeavored to arrange the book in such a manner as to make it a desirable acquisition to the library of the lawyer for use in connection with the class of corporations of which it treats, and, at the same time, to render it a service' able agency in assisting officers and directors in the performance of the statutory duties devolving upon them in their relations with corporate enterprises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.