JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

habitually engage in any avocation or employment in another
county than that in which its certificate of incorporation is
required to be and has been recorded, it may be sued either in
the county where its certificate is recorded or in the county
where it transacts business as aforesaid, whether before a jus-
tice of the peace or in a court of law or equity, and process
shall be served upon such corporation in the same manner as
provided herein in the case of trust and guarantee companies;
and with the exception herein provided for all suits which
shall hereafter be brought against any corporation which has
been or may be incorporated under the general incorporation
laws of this State shall be brought in the counties or City of
Baltimore, as the case may be, in which the certificate of
incorporation is required to be and has been recorded.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
4rom the date of its passage.

Approved March 1, 1900.

CHAPTER 22.

AN ACT to amend Article 27 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, title "Crimes and Punishments," by
adding a new section thereto, to be known as Section 75A.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 27, of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland, title, "Crimes and Punishments," be and the
same is hereby amended by the addition of the following new
section, to be known as Section 75A.

Amended new
section added
Crimes and
Punishments.

75 A. If any executor, administrator, guardian, committee,
trustee, receiver or any other fiduciary shall fraudulently and
wilfully appropriate to any use and purpose not in the due
and lawful execution of his trust, any money or any other
thing of value which may come into his hands as such execu-
tor, administrator, guardian, committee, trustee, receiver, or
in any other fiduciary capacity, or secrete it with a fraudulent
intent to appropriate it to such use or purpose, he shall be
deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished upon

Fraudulently
Appropriated.

conviction by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less
than one year nor more than five years.

Approved March 1, 1900.

Penalty.