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writ of summons upon any officer or agent of such company or upon any
stockholder or incorporator in such company shall be deemed and taken
as sufficient service on such corporation upon the return of the writ issued
against such corporation; and such corporation, being summoned as afore-
said the cause shall stand for trial or hearing according to the laws and
the respective rules of courts of this State, and if judgment shall be ren-
dered 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. 104.

An. Code, sec. 103. 1904, sec. 101. 1894, ch. 144, sec. 88 I.

107. If, after suit brought and judgment rendered as aforesaid, any
corporation from which said bonus shall be due 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 constitute
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 cor-
porate powers exercised by any such building or homestead association
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. 104.

As to the forfeiture of corporate charters, see art. 23, sec. 98, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 104. 1910, ch. 488, secs. 101A and 101B (p. 249).

108. 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 107 is hereby di-
rected 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 Wicomico County v. Bancroft, 203 U. S. 117.)

An. Code, sec. 105. 1904, sec. 102. 1894, ch. 144, sec. 88J.

109. 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 en-
title the State to judgment for said bonus and costs of suit.

An. Code, sec. 106. 1904, sec. 103. 1894, ch. 114, sec. 2.

110. No corporation incorporated 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 pay-
able by it prior to such date, under the provisions of chapter 536 of the