Odd-fellows, &c. poration of associations of Odd Fellows, Free and Accepted Masons, Sons of Temperance, Good Templars or other kindred associations; provided, that the property owned or acquired by such corporation is located in this state, and for forming, laying out and maintaining cemeteries in this state. Proviso. Cemeteries. 19. Class 6. For carrying on in this state any kind mechanical, &c. of manufacturing, ship building, mechanical, industrial Mining. Ores of metals. Proviso. Marble, slate, &c., quarries. Boring for, &c., Telegraph lines. Ocean steam, sail or other ships, &c. Inland steam, &c., ships, &c. or chemical business, and for the sale, transportation, or other disposition of the products thereof. 20. Class 7. For conducting any kind of mining business in this state, and for selling or otherwise disposing of the products of said business where the principal office of said corporation is located in this state. 21. Class 8. For washing, dressing, smelting and otherwise preparing for and bringing to market and selling the ores of all kinds of metals; provided, said corporations carry on their general operations in this state, and have their principal office therein. 22. Class 9. For opening and working quarries of marble, slate or other economic minerals or mineral substances in this state, and for the manufacturing thereof in this state, and for the transportation or exportation and sale thereof. 23. Class 10. For boring for, opening, using or refining petroleum, salt, or other mineral springs in this state, and for boring for, opening, using or refining in this state, other oils, where the principal office of said corporation is located in this state. 24. Class 11. For constructing, owning or operating telegraph lines in this state, where the principal office of said corporation is located in this state. 25. Class 12. For navigating the ocean by steam, sail or other ships or vessels, and transportation of goods and passengers therein, where the principal port of entry and departure thereof is in the United States, and the principal business office of said corporation is located in this state. 26. Class 13. For navigating the waters of this and adjoining states by steam, sail or other boats or vessels, and for the transportation of goods and passengers therein, where the principal office of said corporation is located in this state. warehousing 27. Class 14. For carrying on any forwarding or Forwarding or warehousing business in this state, and for the con- business &c. struction, owning, chartering or leasing of steamboats, wharves, docks, roads, vehicles or other property re- Steamboats, quired for the purpose of such forwarding or warehousing business, where the principal office of said corporation is located in this state. wharves, &c. selling, &c, 28. Class 15. For acquiring or constructing and Constructing, maintaining, selling, leasing or otherwise disposing of bridges, &c. any bridge, pier, wharf, floating or dry dock, or marine railway in this state, where the principal office of said. corporation is located therein. 29. Class 16. For the formation of saving institu- Savings institutions. tions. panies. 30. Class 17. For the formation of gaslight com- Gaslight companies. 31. Class 18. For the formation of turnpike and Turnpike, plank road plank road companies, and for the formation of passen- and passenger ger railway companies outside the limits of the city of nies." Baltimore, not to exceed twelve miles in length. railway compa and coaches. 32. Class 19. For establishing and maintaining Lines of stages lines of stages and stage coaches for the conveyance of passengers and mails of the United States within this state. 33. Class 20. For the purpose of supplying any Water. city or town in this state with pure water. 34. Class 21. For the formation of societies or as- Immigration. sociations for the promotion of immigration into this state. purposes one be incorpo 35. Any company may be incorporated for any two For how many or more of the purposes aforesaid, where in the judg- company may ment of those forming said company the same may be rated. conducted by one corporation with advantage to its general interests. ration. 36. Any corporation incorporated under this article, United corpoor any corporation heretofore formed and now existing, the capital stock of which has been fully paid up, may Proviso. unite with any other corporation incorporated under this article, the capital stock of which has also been fully paid up, where the said corporations have been originally incorporated in whole or in part for the same purpose, and may by such union form one new corporation; provided, that a majority of the stockholders of each of the said corporations forming such union shall assent thereto. Such union or consolidation shall be made upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon by the said corporations, and the said new consolidated corporation shall have such name and such capital stock as shall be agreed upon between the corporations, parties thereto, and when such union or consolidation is made, a certificate of the said union and of the particulars thereof shall be executed by the said corporations, and be acknowledged and recorded as other certificates of incorporations are in this article directed to be acknowledged and recorded. GENERAL REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL CORPORATIONS FORMED UNDER THIS ARTICLE. The certificate. What it shall state. 37. Any five or more persons, citizens of the United States, and a majority of them citizens of this state, who may desire to form a corporation for any of the purposes hereinbefore referred to, shall make, sign, seal and acknowledge before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate in writing in which shall be stated: 1. The names in full and place of residence of the applicants. 2. The proposed corporate name of the corporation, which shall always include the name of the county or city in which it may be formed. 3. The objects or purposes for which incorporation is sought; the time of its existence not to exceed forty years, and the articles, conditions and provisions under which the incorporation is formed. 4. The place or places where the operations of the corporation are to be carried on, and the place in this state in which the principal office of the corporation will be located. 5. The amount of capital stock (if any) of the corpo ration. 6. The number of shares of stock (if any) and the amount of each share. 7. The number of trustees, directors or managers, and their names, who shall manage the concerns of the corporation for the first year. be submitted 38. When said certificate is executed, it shall be the Certificate to duty of the persons executing the same to submit it to to judge. one of the judges of the judicial circuit within which the principal or any other office of said corporation is, under said certificate, to be located, if it shall be located in one of the counties of this state, or to one of the judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, if the principal office of said corporation shall be located in Baltimore city, in order that the said judge may determine whether the said certificate is in conformity with the law. tify: certificate 39. If the said judge shall so determine, he shall Judge to cercertify his said determination upon the said certificate, to be recorded. which shall thereupon be recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which the principal office of said corporation shall, by the terms of said certificate, be located, if it shall be located in one of the counties of this state, or in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if the principal office of said corporation shall be located therein, and the said certificate shall be recorded in a book provided for that special pur pose. 40. When the said certificate shall have been re- Incorporated. corded, the persons who have signed and acknowledged the same, and their successors shall, according to the objects, purposes, articles, conditions and provisions in said instrument contained, become, and be a body Evidence of certificate, &c. Alterations or amendments in charter. Fees to clerks. To endorse date of recording. Powers and lations. politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name stated in such certificate. 41. A copy of such certificate, or of any amendments thereto, or of any paper relating to corporations, which is required by law to be recorded, when certified to be a true copy by the clerk of the court, in whose office the same is recorded, under the seal of his office, shall be evidence in all legal proceedings, and in all the courts of this state. 42. If any alteration or amendment of the articles or provisions of the charter of any of said corporations, shall be made by the authority of the corporation, such alteration or amendment shall be made known, acknowledged and recorded in the same manner as prescribed in sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight and thirty-nine of this article; and after the said alteration or amendment shall be recorded, the same shall be taken to be a part of the said charter or instrument as if the same had originally been made a part thereof. 43. The usual fees for equal or similar services shall be received by the respective clerks under this article, and all the expenses of procuring the charter of incorporation and recording the same, shall be borne by the parties-respectively applying therefor, and the date and fact of recording shall be endorsed by the clerk on every original instrument. 44. Every corporation incorporated under this artigeneral regu- cle shall have the following powers and be subjected to the following general regulations, except in cases where the special provisions relating to any particular corporation are inconsistent with the said general regulations. Succession. Sue and be sued. Seal. 45. Any such corporation shall have power-First. To have succession by its corporate name for the period prescribed by law or by the certificate evidencing its incorporation where the said certificate is in accordance with law. 46. Second. To sue and be sued, complain and defend in any court of law or equity. 47. Third. To make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. |