696
File petition
Why decree
shall not be
passed.
Persons
violating.
Proviso.
Further
proviso.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
tion has been guilty of such misuse, abuse or non-
uses of its corporate powers and franchises, as by law
would authorize and make proper the forfeiture of
its charter, corporate powers and franchises, the
'Attorney General or State's Attorney so authorized,
shall file in the Superior Court of Baltimore city,
or the Circuit Court of the comity, as the case may
be, a petition in the name of the State setting forth
fully and in detail the alleged abuse, misuse or non-
vise, by reason whereof the forfeiture is sought; and
upon The tiling of such petition the court in which
it is filed, or any Judge thereof, shall lay a rule re-
quiring the said company or corporation to show
cause, within such time as the said Judge may deem
proper, why a decree of forfeiture shall not be passed
as prayed in said petition, a copy of which rule and
the petition shall he served on the President, Man-
ager, Secretary, or some other officer of the said
company or corporation, by a day to be therein lim-
ited, not exceeding twenty days, as other processes
against such corporation or companies are directed
to be served; and further proceedings shall be had
in said cause in conformity with the Act passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-eighty
chapter four hundred and seventy-one.
36. Any person or persons, or any- company or
association violating any of the provisions of this Act,
shall be subject to a fine of not loss than one hun-
dred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars,
which fines shall he sued for in the name of the
State of Man land, and collected as all other fines as.
are imposed by the laws of tins State are now col-
lectable; and any Act, or part of an Act, inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act, be and the same are
hereby repealed; provided, that no right of action
accrued, or penalty incurred, under any existing law
repealed by tills Act shall be thereby waived or
annulled in any way, but the same may be enforced
under said Acts in the same way as if the repealing
clause had not been passed; and profiled, further,
that when by the laws of any other State, any taxes,
fines, penalties, deposits of money or securities, or
other obligations or prohibitions are imposed upon
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