In re People

This is an application for an order of liquidation of respondent, the Supreme or Cosmopolitan Council of the Brotherhood of the Commonwealth, also known as Brotherhood of the Commonwealth.

The petition of the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York alleges that the respondent is a fraternal benefit society organized under the Benevolent Orders Law of the State of New York by filing a certificate of election of trustees with *997the Secretary of State on July 15, 1910. The purposes of the respondent, as stated in its revised constitution, are twofold: first, “ To promote the perfecting…