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within the time prescribed by said law, and if such agreement, plan or cer-
tificate of incorporation hath never been since filed for record nor a record
been made in said clerk's office of said agreement, plan or certificate of in-
corporation, from said record book of said corporation as aforesaid, such
church or congregation shall have all of the benefits of this section, if such
agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation shall be duly filed for
record in the proper clerk's office, within one year from April 11, 1912, or
a record be made within said" time in said clerk's office of said agreement,
plan or certificate of incorporation from said record book of said corpora-
tion, as aforesaid.

The existence of a corporation upheld under the act of 1910, ch. 756 (p. 83). Certifi-
cate of incorporation found in the minute book of the corporation held to be property
treated as an original, or at least a duplicate original, for the purpose of this section.
Even if such certificate was a copy, if there never was in the county any record or
record book such as is specified in the act of 1910, ch. 756, the filing of such copy is
a sufficient compliance with this section. The act of 1912, ch. 218, referred to but not
construed. Mills v. Zion Chapel, 119 Md. 514.

Safe Deposit Companies.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 291. 1912, sec. 356. 1904, sec. 317. 1904, ch. 92, sec. 221 A.

292. No safe deposit company, incorporated under the laws of this
State or any other State, the District of Columbia, or any territory of
the United States, and engaged in the business of renting out locked boxes
or safes for the storage or safe keeping of securities and valuables, in a
vault in its building or under its control, within this State, and no cor-
poration engaged in said business within this State shall permit entry or
access to be made by one of any two or more co-trustees, co-executors or ad-
ministrators, or other joint fiduciaries, to whom it shall have rented a safe
or box in such vault for the storage or safe keeping of securities or other
valuables belonging to their trust estate, nor permit such entry or access
in such cases to be made otherwise than by all of such lessees in person,
their survivors or successors; nor, where such safe or box is rented to a single
trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary for such purpose, permit
such entry or access, otherwise than by such trustee or other fiduciary in
person or his successors; provided, however, that where it is otherwise
stipulated in writing in the lease of such box or safe, signed by all of such
lessees, or where a written power of attorney or other written authority is
filed with such company, signed by all the lessees, or by the one or more
conferring such power on the other or others, authorizing such entry and
access by one or more of their number, or by a deputy therein duly named
and authorized, then in such cases entry may be permitted in accordance
with the provisions of such written lease or authority.
As to safe deposit companies, see also sec. 136, et seq.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 292. 1924, ch. 379.

293. Any Safe Deposit Company engaged in the business of renting
out locked boxes or safes for storage or safe-keeping of securities and valu-
ables in a vault in its building, or under its control, within this State, or
other corporation or individual engaged in such business, may in any lease
or contract governing or regulating the use of any such box or safe to or by
any customer or customers, limit its liability as such lessor or bailee in all
or any of the following respects:

1. Limit its total liability for any loss by negligence to such maximum
amount as may be so stipulated, not less however than five hundred times
the annual rental of such box or safe.