PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1211

The new corporation shall succeed to all the obligations and
liabilities of the old corporation, or any of them, and shall be
held liable to pay and discharge all such debts and liabilities
in the same manner as if they had been incurred or contracted
by it. The stockholders of the old corporations shall continue
subject to all the liabilities, claims and demands existing against
them, or either of them, at or before said merger or consolida-
tion. No action or proceeding pending at the time of con-
solidation in which any or all of the said old corporations may
be a party shall abate or discontinue by reason of the merger or
consolidation, but the same may be prosecuted to final judg-
ment in the same manner as if the merger or consolidatiou and
not taken place, or the new corporation may be substituted in
place of any corporation so merged or consolidated by order of
the Court in which the action or proceeding may be pending,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the laws, or parts
of laws, heretofore enacted which are or may be in conflict
with this Act, or any part hereof, are hereby repealed in so
far as they so conflict.

And this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER 708.

AN ACT to add an additional Section to Article 16 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Chancery," sub-
title '' Non-residents.''

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional Section be and the same is hereby
added to Article 16 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, title '' Chancery,'' sub-title '' Non-residents,'' to fol-
low Section 118, to be known as 118-A, and to read as follows:

SEC. 118-A. In all cases in chancery where the non compos;
mentis owns property in this State and is a non-resident and
has been adjudicated as a non compos mentis in a foreign,
jurisdiction, and a guardian, committee or trustee has been
appointed and has qualified under the authority of a competent
tribunal in said foreign jurisdiction an exemplified copy of
said adjudication and qualification and appointment shall be
full proof in the Courts of this State of the disability of such
person and of the legality of the appointment and qualification