924
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Certificate.
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agers of such corporation, within thirty days after
the payment of the last installment of the capital
stock, as fixed and limited in the certificate of in-
corporation, shall make a certificate stating the
amount of the capital stock so fixed and paid in,
and of all property received in payment for any of
said subscriptions, and the extent to which said
payments have been so made in property, which
certificate shall be signed and sworn to by the
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Filed.
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President ; and he shall, within thirty days there-
after, file the same with the clerk of the court in
which the certificate of incorporation of said cor-
poration was recorded, to be by said clerk recorded.
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Not liable
personally.
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Sec. 61. And be it enacted, That no person hold-
ing stock in any such corporation as executor, ad-
ministrator, guardian or trustee, and no person
holding such stock as collateral security, shall be
personally subject to any liability as stockholders of
such corporation ; but the person pledging the stock
shall be considered as holding the same, and shall
be liable as stockholder accordingly, and the estates
and funds in the hands of such executor, adminis-
trator, guardian or trustee, shall be liable in like
manner and to the same extent as the testator or
intestate, or ward or person interested in such trust
fund, would have been if he had been living and
competent to act, and hold the same stock in his
own name,
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Dividend.
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Sec. 62. And be it enacted, That if the Trustees,
Managers or Directors of any such corporation
shall declare and pay any dividend when the cor-
poration is insolvent, or any dividend, the payment
of which would render it insolvent, or would di-
minish the amount of the capital stock, they shall
be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of
the corporation then existing, and also for all that
shall thereafter be contracted, while they shall re-
spectively continue in office, even although the
whole amount of the capital of said corporation
has been paid in.
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Exempt from
liability.
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Sec. 63, And be it enacted, That if any of the
Trustees, Directors or Managers of such corpora-
tion shall object to declaring such dividend, or to
the payment of the same, and having voted against
the declaration thereof, shall at any time before the
time fixed for the payment of the same, record a
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