SEC. 66. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from. the date of its passage, but that its application as
between employers and employees shall date from and include
the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and
fourteen.

CERTIFICATES OF INCORPORATION.

The following sections of the General Corporation Law of
Maryland prescribe the requirements to be shown in a Certifi-
cate of Incorporation, the fees therefor and where the same
is to be filed.

Following these sections will be found a form which con-
forms to the legal requirements.

PROVISIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF CORPORATIONS.

SEC. 2. Corporations may be formed, under the provisions
of this Article for any one or more lawful purposes, except
such as are excluded from the operation of a general law by
the Constitution of this State. And except where special pro-
visions inconsistent herewith are made in this Article for par-
ticular classes, all corporations shall be formed in manner
following:

SEC. 3. The incorporators, being any three or more adult
persons, of whom at least one shall be a citizen of this State,
shall sign and acknowledge before some officer competent to
take the acknowledgment of deeds for land situated in the
State, a certificate in which shall be stated:

(a) That the subscribers thereto (giving their names and
places of residence) associate themselves with the intention of
forming a corporation.

(b) The name of the proposed corporation, which shall
always be such as to indicate that it is a corporation as dis-
tinguished from a natural person or a partnership.

This provision shall be deemed to be complied with if the
name of the corporation begins with the word "the" and ends
with the word "company" or "corporation," or if the title
shall contain the word "incorporated."

(c) The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is
formed and the business or objects to be carried on and pro-
moted by it.