COEPOEATIONS. TOY

Sec. 411 of the Code of 1904, held to have no application to insurance companies
(see sec. 182, art. 23, An. Code, 1912—see footnote to art. 48A, this Code). Oland v.
Agricultural Ins. Co., 69 Md. 249. And see Ben Franklin Ins. Co. v. Gillett, 54 Md.
215; Carstairs v. Mechanics' Ins. Co., 13 Fed. 824.

Sec. 411 of the Code of 1904 cited but not construed in B. & 0. R. R. Co. v.
Adams Express Co., 22 Fed. 408.

Secs 99 to 104 of art. 75 of the Code of 1860 cited but not construed in State v.
German Savings Bank, 103 Md. 202; B. & 0. R. R. Co. v. Glenn, 28 Md. 320.

Cross references.

See sec. 345, and notes to sec. 103.

As to process upon insurance and surety companies, see art. 48A, sec. 138; also
art. 75, sec. 27.

As to service of process upon telegraph and express companies, see also art. 56,
sec. 162.

As to proceedings against a defendant corporation as though it were a non-
resident, if neither the president nor any of its directors, officers or agents, reside
in Maryland, see art. 16, sec. 135.

As to process in general, see art. 75, sec. 153, et seq.

As to process against corporations in criminal cases, see art. 27, secs. 727 and 728.

As to suit and process against Adams Express Company and other unincorporated
stock companies, see art. 73, sec. 31.

An. Code; sec. 93. 1904, secs. 137 and 138. 1898, ch. 270, secs. 109 and 109B.
1908, ch. 240, sec. 68. 1920, ch. 235, sec. 93. 1922, ch. 180, sec. 93.

119. Every foreign corporation, except insurance companies herein-
after provided for, which has an office or place of business in this State
(including any corporation with or without a usual office or place of busi-
ness in this State, which purposes to engage therein permanently or tem-
porarily in the construction, alteration, erection or repair of any building,
bridge, railroad, railway or structure of any kind) shall, before doing
business therein, file with the State Tax Commission of Maryland: (1)
an officially certified copy of its charter or certificate of incorporation;
(2) a report to be filed annually thereafter on or before the fifteenth day
of March in every year, subscribed and sworn to by its president or treas-
urer (or a majority of its board of directors) and accompanied by a fee
of one dollar for filing such report, showing (a) the corporate name; (b) the
names and addresses of its president, treasurer, secretary and members of its
board of directors; (c) its main office in this State and its principal office in
the State of incorporation; (d) the amount of its capital stock authorized
and the amount issued, and the number and par value of the shares, and the
names and addresses of the corporation's shareholders in this State, and
the number of shares held by each; and in such annual report shall be given
such information as may be required by the State Tax Commission in order
to enable it to determine the amount of capital employed in Maryland as of
January first of the year for which such report is filed; (e) the name and
address of its agent resident in this State, service of process upon whom
shall bind the corporation until the appointment of. a substitute is duly
certified to the State Tax Commission. The State Tax Commission shall
preserve and maintain a record book wherein shall be annually recorded the
name of the corporation; its main office in this State; the amount of its
capital employed in this State as determined by the State Tax Commis-
sion ; the amount of tax entered on the capital employed in this State; and
the name and address of the resident agent on whom service of process may