710 ARTICLE 23.

law; every foreign corporation, whatever the nature of its business, shall be
subject to taxation upon its real and personal property situated in this
State, as if the same belonged to a natural person; and nothing herein shall
exempt from taxation the shares of a foreign corporation owned by resi-
dents of this State.

An. Code, sec. 97A. 1914, ch. 846.

125. No foreign corporation or association shall have any benefit of
any limitation as to any judgment heretofore or hereafter to be recovered
against it in any court or courts of this State; but such judgment, whether
now above twelve years standing or not, shall be good and pleadable, and
shall be admitted in evidence, and an execution or attachment may be issued
thereon, and it may be otherwise proceeded with, as well after, as within,
twelve years from its date.

As to limitations, see art. 57; see also art. 26, sec. 20.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

An. Code, sec. 98. 1908, ch. 240, sec. 73.

126. Whenever it shall happen in the case of any corporation having
a definite number of members and no capital stock, that by death or resig-
nation the membership shall be reduced below a majority of the prescribed
number, the corporation shall not on that account be dissolved; but it shall
be lawful for the surviving or continuing members so long as the number
thereof shall be two or more, to fill vacancies and continue the corporate
succession.

See sec. 115.

An. Code, sec. 99. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 1. 1908, ch. 240, sec. 74.

127. A corporation may acknowledge any instrument required by law
to be acknowledged, by its attorney appointed under its seal, and such
appointment may be embodied in the deed, or such instrument may be
acknowledged by the president or any vice-president of such corporation
without such appointment.

Certificate of consolidation acknowledged by an attorney duly appointed by each
of the constituent companies, held valid. Bennett v. St. Paul's Church, 137 Md. 347.

A mortgage by a corporation acknowledged by the attorney named therein as
his act and deed, held valid. Frostburg Bldg. Assn. v. Brace, 51 Md. 510.

An. Code, sec. 99A. 1916, ch. 596, sec. 99A.

128. Any acknowledgment or affidavit required by this Article may be
made before any notary public or other officer competent to take acknowl-
edgments of deeds for land situated anywhere in this State. If such ac-
knowledgment or affidavit be made before a justice of the peace, his official
character shall be certified to by the clerk of the Circuit or Superior Court
under his official seal.

An. Code, sec. 99B. 1916, ch. 596, sec. 99B.

129. No charter or other paper, which is not in conformity with law,
shall be received bv the State Tax Commission for record.