1842 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81

and if judgment shall be rendered against such corporation a fee of ten
dollars shall be allowed the attorney for the State to be taxed in the
plaintiff's costs.

See notes to sec. 100.

1904, art. 81, sec. 101. 1894, ch. 144, sec. 881.

103. If, after suit brought and judgment rendered as aforesaid, any
corporation from which said bonus shall be clue as aforesaid shall con-
tinue in arrears and shall fail or neglect to pay said bonus to the state
treasurer, for the space of two years after the same shall be so in arrears,
such failure and neglect shall be deemed to amount to and shall consti-
tute a forfeiture of the charter of such corporation, and said charter
shall be decreed to be so forfeited and annulled ipso facto; and any and
all corporate powers exercised by any such building or homestead asso-
ciation formed after January 1, 1890, and prior to the 21st day of
March, 1894. are hereby given validity and full force.
See notes to sec. 100.
As to the forfeiture of corporate charters, see art. 23, sec. 82, et seq.

1910. ch. 488, sees. 101 A and 101B (p. 249).

104. The clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city or the
circuit court for the county in which the charter is recorded of any
corporation liable for the payment of the bonus tax under section 103
is hereby directed to record, among such charter records, any receipts
for the payment of any bonus tax given to a corporation whose charter
is recorded among such records, and a duly certified copy of such records
shall be prima facie evidence of the payment of such tax on the date of
such receipt. The clerk of the court is authorized to charge fifty cents
for the recording of each receipt and the usual rate for the giving of
a certified copy thereof, and is directed to index the recording of such
certificate among such charter records under the name of the corporation.
Cited but not construed in Baltimore, etc., Ry. v. Wicomico County, 93
Md. 123. (And see Wicomlco County v. Bancroft, 203 U. S. 117).

1904, art. 81, sec. 102. 1894. ch. 144. sec. 88 J.

105. The certificate of the comptroller, under the seal of his office,
shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of bonus due as aforesaid,
to entitle the State to judgment for said bonus and costs of suit.

Ibid. sec. 103. 1894, ch. 114. sec. 2.

106. No corporation incorporated1 prior to the 21st day of March,
1894, shall in any manner be relieved or released from the payment of
any bonus due and owing by it or which shall have become due and
payable by it prior to such elate, under the provisions of chapter 536 of
the acts of the general assembly of Maryland of the year 1890, except-
ing, nevertheless, such classes of corporations as will be exempt from the
operation of sections 100, 101, 102, 103 and 105, which said classes
of corporations heretofore formed shall be exempt from the operation
of said five sections in like manner as such classes of corporations
hereafter to bo formed.