LICENSES. 1991

for profit or hire in any way within this State, or to receive compensation
therefor or to open any office for the transaction of such business within
this State, without first obtaining a license therefor as hereinafter provided.
As to telegraph and telephone companies, see aft. 23, sec. 293, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 122. 1904, sec. 120. 1888, sec. 103. 1872, ch. 365. 1874, ch. 3.7.0, sec. 5.

160. It shall not be lawful for any express or transportation company,
or for any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, to do the
business of transporting or forwarding goods or packages of any sort, or
of any article of trade or traffic for profit or hire within this State, without
first obtaining a license therefor as hereinafter provided.

This and the following sections recognize existence of unincorporated joint stock
companies or associations doing business in Maryland. Status of real estate held
by trustees of Adams Express Company. Reffon Realty Corporation v. Adams Land,
etc., Co., 128 Md. 662.

An. Code, sec. 123. 1904, sec. 121. 1888, sec. 104. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 6.

161. Any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership, association
or corporation proposing to do the business of telegraphing for profit or
hire within this State and any express or transportation company, or any
person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation proposing to do the
business of transporting or forwarding for profit or hire within this State
goods or packages of any sort or any article of trade or traffic shall pay
to the comptroller for license to do such business in this State, for one year,
the sum of three hundred dollars, or a proportional part of said sum for
any fractional part of a year not less than one month; and all licenses so
issued shall be made to expire on the first day of May next succeeding the
date of their issue.

An. Code, sec 124. 1904, sec. 122. 1888, sec. 105. 1872 ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 7.

162. Service of legal process upon any of the officers or agents of any
person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation transacting
said business of telegraphing or of transporting or forwarding for profit
or hire as aforesaid, within this State shall be a sufficient service on the
person, firm, partnership, association, company, or corporation; provided,
a copy of such process shall be placed in the postoffice by the officer serving
the same, directed to the officer in charge of the principal office of said
person, firm, partnership, association, company, or corporation in the city
of Baltimore; and such officer in making return of such process shall certify
to the court on the day of said service that he complied with the provisions
of this section ,by placing such copy in the postoffice so directed with a
sufficient postage stamp annexed to the envelope containing the same.
As to service of process upon corporations, see art. 23, secs. 103 and 118.

An. Code, sec. 125. 1904, sec. 123. 1888, sec. 106. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 8.

163. If any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership, association,
or corporation shall do the business of telegraphing for profit or hire
within this State or shall open any office or offices for the transaction of
such business, or if any express or transportation company, or any person,