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1861, c 265.
Remedy for
corporations
when they
deem demand
by county com-
missioners, &c ,
excessive.
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98. Whenever any of the corporations of this
state shall propose to the county commissioners or
appeal tax court to make such agreement as pro-
vided by any section of this article, and the county
commissioners or appeal tax court, as the case may
be, shall exact and demand payment on an amount
which said corporation shall consider excessive, it
shall and may be lawful for such corporation to
apply to the circuit court for the county, or to the
superior court of Baltimore city, as the case may be,
according to the habitat of said corporation, by
petition in writing, verified by the affidavit of the
president or other proper officer of said corporation,
showing the amount of the capital stock of said
company, agreeably to the act of incorporation or
any supplement thereto, the number of shares into
which said capital is divided, and the par value of
each share under the act of incorporation, and the
number of shares of the said capital stock held by per-
sons residing out of the state, the number of shares
held by persons in the said county or city, and the
number of shares held by persons outside of said
county or city, and within the state, and also a state-
ment showing the assets of said corporation in a gene-
ral way, and the estimated value of said assets ; and
upon the filing of said petition and said statement, it
shall be the duty of the said court to appoint a day
for the hearing thereof as early as can conveniently
be assigned for the purpose; notice whereof shall be
given to the county commissioners or appeal tax
court, as the case may be, by service of a copy of
said petition and statement, and of the order of said
court; and if the said county commissioners or said
appeal tax court shall controvert the allegations of
said petition, then the matters in issue shall be tried,
in the usual way, by a jury then and there to be
empanneled, and either party, except as to mere
valuation, shall be entitled to appeal within sixty
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