The Department of State shall have the power, and its duty shall be, to file all applications for charters of corporations, for the amendment of such charters, for the merger and consolidation of such corporations, for the change of their corporate names, for the reorganization after judicial sale of their franchises and property, for the increase of their capitalization or indebtedness, or the decrease of their capitalization, for the change of the par value of the shares of their stock, for the change of the location of their principal office, and for any other proceeding by or with reference to such corporations, as may be permitted or required by law; to transmit to the Governor such papers in connection therewith as may be required; and to perform all such other duties, acts, and things, in connection therewith, as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law.
71 P.S. § 275