CORPORATIONS. 801

suit in any of the courts of the State or1 any. controversy which may
arise between such corporation and any resident of this State.

This section is practically sec. 409 of art. 23 of the Code of 1904 with the addi-
tional provision for controversies between foreign corporations and residents of
Maryland. This section does not repeal or modify sec. 67 of ch. 240 of the acts of
1908—see sec. 118 of this article. Hagerstown Brewing Co. v. Gates, 117 Md. 353.

Sec. 409 of the Code of 1904, referred to in construing secs. 410 and 411 of said
Code—see notes to secs. 103 and 118. Fairfax, etc., Co. v. Chambers, 75 Md. 614.
And see Central, etc., R. R. Co. v. Eichberg, 107 Md. 366; Gottschalk Co. v. Distill-
ing Co., 50 Fed. 681.

Sec. 409 of the Code of 1904, referred to in construing art. 81, sec. 229, et seq.—
see notes thereto. Hannis Distilling Co. v. Baltimore, 114 Md. 678.

Sec. 411 of the Code of 1904, referred to in construing sec. 182, Code of 1912—see
foot-note to art. 48A, this Code. Ben Franklin Ins. Co. v. Gillett, 54 Md. 215.

See sec. 117, et seq.

Public Service Commission.

An. Code, sec. 413. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 1 (p. 338).

346. This sub-title shall be known as the " public service commission
law," and shall apply to the public services herein described and to the
commission hereby created and to the public service corporations and
persons herein mentioned and referred to.

The term " commission," when used in this sub-title, means' the public
service commission hereby created.

The term " commissioner," when used in this sub-title, means one of
the members of such commission.

The term " corporation," when used in this sub-title, includes a corpora-
tion, company, association and joint stock company or association.

The term " person," when used in this sub-title, includes an individual
and a firm or copartnership.

The term " railroad," when used in this sub-title, includes every railroad,
other than a street railroad, by whatsoever power operated for public use
in the conveyance of persons or property for compensation, with all bridges,
ferries, tunnels, switches, spurs, tracks, stations and terminal facilities of
every kind, used, operated, controlled or owned by or in connection with
any such railroad.

The term " street railroad," when used in this sub-title, includes every
railroad by whatsoever power operated, or any extension or extensions,
branch or branches thereof, for public use in the conveyance of persons
or property for compensation, being mainly upon, along, above or below
any street, avenue, road, highway, bridge or public place within the cor-
porate limits of the city of Baltimore or any other city or town containing
a population of not less than two thousand persons, within the State of
Maryland, and including all switches, spurs, tracks, right of trackage,
subways, tunnels, stations, terminals and terminal facilities of every kind,
used, operated, controlled or owned by or in connectipn with any such
street railroad; but the said term " street railroad," when used in this
sub-title, shall not include a railroad constituting or used as part of a trunk
line railroad system.

1 Evidently a typographical error.
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