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110 CORPORATIONS. [ART. XXIII
93.
A certificate held to be in substantial compliance with this section and
admissible in evidence without the introduction of the papers filed with
the secretary of state from which the certificate is made; the fact that
the certificate was dated after the filing of a plea setting up a failure to
comply with this section, held immaterial. Strasbaugh v. Sanitary Can
Co., 127 Md. 637.
See notes to section 92.
94.
See notes to section 93.
1908, ch. 240, see. 70. 1918, ch. 469, sec. 2.
95. Every foreign corporation, except railroad companies, tele-
graph or cable companies, express or transportation companies, oil or
pipe line companies, title insurance companies, electric light or gas
companies, electric construction companies, telephone companies, par-
lor-car or sleeping-car companies, safe deposit companies, trust com-
panies, national banks', life, fire, marine, casualty and other insurance
companies, and guarantee and fidelity companies, or any corporation
paying a gross receipts tax which maintains an office and regularly
exercises its franchises in this State, shall at the time of filing its
annual certificate, to wit, before the first day of April in every year,
pay to the state treasurer for the use of the State a franchise tax for
such year at the following rate, that is to say, the sum of twenty-five
dollars for every full fifty thousand dollars of capital employed by it
in this State up to five hundred thousand dollars—but in no case less
than twenty-five dollars; if the amount of such capital is more than
five hundred thousand dollars, and not more than five million dollars,
then an additional amount equal to one-fortieth of one per cent, on the
excess; and if more than five million dollars, then an additional amount
at the rate of thirty dollars for every million dollars of such last named
excess.
Miscellaneous Provisions.
1916, ch. 596, sec. 99A.
99A. Any acknowledgment or affidavit required by this Article
may be made before any notary public or other officer competent to take
acknowledgments of deeds for land situated anywhere in this State.
If such acknowledgment or affidavit be made before a justice of the
peace, his official character shall be certified to by the clerk of the Cir-
cuit or Superior Court under his official seal.
1916, ch. 596, sec. 99B.
99B. No charter or other paper, which is not in conformity with
law, shall be received by the State Tax Commission for record.
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