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any such corporation at any time have deposited with said Treasurer
more than the amount hereby required, such excess may be refunded.

Where a surety company alleged to be solvent goes into voluntary disso-
lution, the state treasurer will not be directed to turn over to the receivers
the securities deposited under this section. Vandiver v. Poe, 119 Md. 350.
(This case arose prior to the act of 1912; chapter 194.)

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

116.

To the fourth note to section 116 on page 589 of volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code, add the case of Republic Iron, etc., Co. v. Carlton, 189 Fed. 130.

120.

See section 88D.

124.

This section has no application to mortgages covering both leasehold
and personal property, particularly when the amount of the latter is not
shown and may be of comparatively little value as compared with the
leasehold property. Chipman v. Farmers & Merchants Bk., 121 Md. 354.

Bridge Companies.

126.

As to condemnation, see article 33A.

Cemetery Companies.
144.

As to graveyard desecrations, see article 27, section 230, et seq.

Gas and Electric Light Companies.
149.

A corporation which has the right to use the streets of a city for its
pipes for manufactured gas for lighting purposes, may not prevent a for-
eign corporation from laying pipes through the streets of the city, with the
city's consent, to convey natural gas for fuel and light. Bights of foreign
corporations. Cumberland Gaslight Co. v. W. Va. Gas Co., 188 Fed. 585.

As to "Fraud upon Gas Companies," see article 27, sections 157 and 158.

Insurance Companies.
152.

As to workmen's compensation insurance, see article 101.
As to fraud by directors or officers of insurance companies, see article 27,
section 162.

1904, art. 23, sec. 146. 1888, art. 23, sec. 114. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 98.

1914, ch. 489.

154. Corporations may be formed under the provisions of this Arti-
cle, for insurance purposes, and may be formed either as mutual or stock
companies or as mutual or stock companies combined, as shall be deter-
mined and declared in the certificate of incorporation of any such com-
pany.