Section 234. Pay of commissioners

Each of the commissioners shall be paid
  for his services at the rate of ten dollars per  day  for  each  day  of
  actual  service  as  such  commissioner,  and  all  expenses necessarily
  incurred by him in the discharge of his  duties,  to  be  paid  by  such
  corporation,  but  if  a sufficient amount of capital stock shall not be
  subscribed within one year after the appointment of  such  commissioners
  to  authorize the formation of such corporation, the commissioners shall
  receive no salary, and shall cause to be returned to the subscribers for
  such stock the amounts paid in by them, after  deducting  therefrom  the
  necessary  expenses incurred by the commissioners, but the time, if any,
  unavoidably consumed by the pendency of legal proceedings shall  not  be
  deemed a part of any period of time limited by this article.