726 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

Every order of the commission shall be served upon every person or
corporation to be affected thereby, either by personal delivery of a certi-
fied copy thereof, or by mailing a certified copy thereof, in a sealed
package, with postage prepaid, to the person to be affected thereby; or,
in the case of a corporation, to any officer or agent thereof upon whom
summons may be served under the laws of this State. It shall be the
duty of every person and corporation to notify the commission forth-
with in writing of the receipt of the certified copy of every order so
served, and in the case of a corporation such notification must be signed
and acknowledged by a person or officer duly authorized by the corpora-
tion to admit such service. Within a time specified in the order of
the commission every person and corporation upon whom it is served
must, if so required in the order, notify the commission in like man-
ner whether the terms of the order are accepted and will be obeyed.

Every order of the commission shall take effect at a time therein
specified and shall continue in force for a period therein designated
unless earlier modified or abrogated by the commission, or unless such
order be unauthorized by this sub-title, or be in violation of a pro-
vision of the constitution of the State or of the United States.

Any company, corporation, association, person or partnership subject
to any of the provisions of this sub-title, or other person or party in
interest, shall have the right to proceed in the courts to vacate, set
aside or have modified any order of said commission on the grounds
that such order is unreasonable or unlawful, as hereinafter more par-
ticularly set forth.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 12 (p. 354).

424. This sub-title shall apply to the transportation of passengers,
freight or property from one point to another within the State of
Maryland, and to any common carrier performing such service; and
this sub-title shall be so applicable and be so construed as to be free
from conflict with those provisions of the constitution of the United
States and the laws in pursuance thereof relating to interstate com-
merce.

See sec. 467.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 13 (p. 354).

425. Every corporation, person or common carrier performing the
services designated in the preceding sections shall furnish, with respect
thereto, such service and facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in
all respects just and reasonable. All charges made or demanded by any
such common carrier for the transportation of passengers, freight or
property, or for any service rendered or to be rendered in connection
therewith, as defined in section 414, shall be just and reasonable and
not more than allowed by law or by order of the commission, conform-
ably with the law. Every unjust or unreasonable charge made or
demanded for any such service or transportation of passengers, freight
or property, or in connection therewith, or in excess of that allowed by