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PREFACE V CHAPTER
CONTENTSAPPENDIX
- The Nature of the Study 1
- The Significance of an Incorporation 4
- The Period of the Special Charter 10
- Trends in Business Incorporations, 1875-1943 31
- The Number of Incorporations and Their Authorized Capital Stock 36
- Large, Medium, and Small Business Corporations 42
- An Industrial Classification of Incorporations 50
- Fields of Corporate Enterprise 66
- Incorporations and Business Cycles 75
INDEX 180
- Private Nonbusiness Incorporations 89
- Maryland Business Incorporations Classified According to Authorized Capital Stock 91
- Business Incorporations and Their Authorized Capital Stock 95
- Industrial Classification of Business Incorporations 153
- Two Tests: Capital Stock as an Index of the Size of a Corporation; The Charter as a Source of Information on Corporate Purposes 171
- Total Incorporations Used in Constructing the Monthly Aggregate Index of Incorporations and in Analyzing Cyclical Movements 177
TABLES AND CHARTSTABLECHART
- Business Incorporation Series Compiled for this Study Unless Otherwise Specified 2
- Previous Status of Maryland Companies Incorporated in 1934 and 1935 that had Predecessors and Remained in Business more than One Year after Incorporation 5
- All Maryland Business Corporations Char- tered in 1925, 1926, and 1927 and the Number of those Companies on the Mary- land Forfeiture List of February 22, 1931 (classified by authorized capital stock) 6
- Maryland Corporation Life Table 8
- Chronology of Initial State Constitutional Provisions that Necessitated Incorporation under General Laws 11
- Business Incorporations, Eight States, 1800-1875 12
- Maryland Business Incorporations by Spe- cial Acts, 1800-1852 14
- New Jersey Business Incorporations: By Special Acts, 1800-1875; Under General Laws, 1864-1899 15
- New York Business Incorporations Under Special and General Laws, 1800-1845 17
- Ohio Business Incorporations: By Special Acts, 1803-1851; Under General Laws, 1856-1899 18
- Incorporations Classified Industrially, Four States; Percentage Distribution by Decades, 1790-99 to 1890-99 20
- States in the Annual Median Index. of In- corporations with the Periods of Their Inclusion 34
- Annual Aggregate and Median Indexes of Incorporations, 1860-1943 34
- Incorporations, United Kingdom, 1863- 1937. 35
- Ohio Incorporations, Total Authorized Capital Stock, Annual Averages, 1872- 1918 40
- New Jersey Corporations with Authorized Capital Stock of $20,000,000 or more Char- tered under General Laws, 1881-1902 48
- Number of New Jersey Corporations with Authorized Capital Stock of $20,000,000 or more Chartered under General Laws, 1880-1918 49
- Number of Delaware Corporations with Authorized Capital Stock of $20,000,000 or more Chartered under General Laws, 1916-1943 49
- Industrial Categories used in Classifying Incorporations 51
- A Sample of Pennsylvania Corporations Chartered in 1902 Classified on Basis of Bradstreet and Charter Descriptions 54
- Title Guarantee and Trust Incorporations, Pennsylvania, December 1899-November 1904 58
- Corporations Reporting for Income Taxa- tion: Percentage Distribution by Major Industrial Categories; New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, 1916-1918 and 1921-1930 59
- Incorporations under General Laws:. Per- centage Distribution by Major Industrial Categories; New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, 1872-1930 60
- Number and Percentage of Basic Categories of Table 19 Used in Classifying Industrially the Incorporations of Each Year, 1800-1930: New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 63
- Business Incorporations: Percentage Distribution by One-Letter Industrial Categories; New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 66
- Mining and Quarrying Incorporations: Percentage Distribution by Two-Letter Industrial Categories; New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 67
- Percentages of Total Manufacturing Incorporations that Fitted into Certain Two Letter Industrial Categories: New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 68
- Years in which Annual Incorporations in Certain Manufacturing Industries First Equaled or Exceeded 7 1/2 Percent of the Total Annual Manufacturing Incorporations: New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 68
- Public Utility Incorporations: Percentage Distribution by Two-Letter Industrial Categories; New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 68
- Incorporations of Companies Supplying Services: Percentage Distribution by Two- Letter Industrial Categories; New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 69
- Percentages of Total Incorporations of Financial Enterprises that Fitted into Certain Two-Letter Industrial Categories: New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania 69
- Oil Incorporations as a Percentage of Total Business Incorporations, Texas, 1901 73
- Gas Incorporations, Ohio and Pennsylvania, 1880-1893 73
- Mining and Total Business Incorporations, Colorado, 1891-1897 73
- Indexes of Seasonal Variation in Business Incorporations: Maine, Ohio, and Texas 76
- States in the Monthly Aggregate Index of Incorporations with the Periods of Their Inclusion 79
- Seasonal Indexes Used in Computing the Monthly Aggregate Index of Incorporations 80
- Monthly Aggregate Index of Incorporations, 1860-1941 80
- States in the Monthly Median Index of Incorporations with the Periods of Their Inclusion 81
- Monthly Median Index of Incorporations, 1860-1943 83
- Timing of Cycles in Total Incorporations 85
- Timing of Cycles in the Monthly Median Index of Incorporations 85
- Specific-Cycle Patterns in Total Incorporations 86
- Reference-Cycle Patterns in Total Incorporations 88
- Business Incorporations, Eight States, 1800-1875 13
- Turnpike Incorporations, Five States, 1800-1877 22
- Manufacturing Incorporations, Four States, 1800-1877 23
- Railroad Incorporations, Four States, 1800-1876 25
- Maryland Business Incorporations (excluding Turnpike and Manufacturing) by Special Acts, 1800-1852 26
- New Jersey Business Incorporations (excluding Turnpike and Manufacturing): By Special Acts, 1800-1845; Under Special and General Laws, 1846-1875 27
- New York Business Incorporations (excluding Turnpike and Manufacturing) under Special and General Laws, 1800-1845 28
- Ohio Business Incorporations (excluding Turnpike and Manufacturing): By Special Acts, 1803-1851; Under General Laws, 1856-1875 29
- Business Incorporations, Sixteen States, Annually, 1860-1943 32
- Delaware Business Incorporations, Number and Authorized Capital Stock, 1916-1943 37
- Texas Business Incorporations, Number and Authorized Capital Stock, 1872-1920 38
- Ohio Business Incorporations, Number and Authorized Capital Stock, 1872-1918 39
- Illinois Business Incorporations, Number and Authorized Capital Stock, 1897-1918 40
- Colorado Business Incorporations by Size Groups, 1891-1908 43
- Delaware Business Incorporations by Size Groups, 1916-1943 43
- Illinois Business Incorporations by Size Groups, 1897-1918 44
- Maryland Business Incorporations by Size Groups, 1870-1939 45
- New Jersey Business Incorporations by Size Groups, 1875-1918 46
- Ohio Business Incorporations by Size Groups, 1872-1918 46
- Incorporations under General Laws and Corporations Reporting for Income Taxation: Percentage Distribution by Major Industrial Categories 62
- Long Cycles in Incorporations, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, 1872-1930: Communication, Transportation, Other Public Utilities, Building and Loan Associations 70
- Business Incorporations, Four States, 1881-1907 77
- Public Utility Incorporations, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, 1875-1930 78
- Manufacturing Incorporations, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, 1875-1930 78
- Monthly Aggregate and Median Indexes of Business Incorporations, 1860-1943 82
- Average Cyclical Patterns of Monthly Aggregate Incorporations 87
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