ART. 26.] CORPORATIONS.

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4. The place or places where the operations of the
corporation are to be carried on, and the place in this
state in which the principal office of the corporation
will be located.
5. The amount of capital stock (if any) of the corpo-
ration.
6. The number of shares of stock (if any) and the
amount of each share.
7. The number of trustees, directors or managers,
and their names, who shall manage the concerns of the
corporation for the first year.

38. When said certificate is executed, it shall be the
duty of the persons executing the same to submit it to
one .of the judges of the judicial circuit within which
the principal or any other office of said corporation is,
under said certificate, to be located, if it shall be located
in one of the counties of this state, or to one of the
judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, if the
principal office of said corporation shall be located in
Baltimore city, in order that the said judge may deter-
mine whether the said certificate is in conformity with
the law.

Certificate to
be submitted
to judge.

39. If the said judge shall so determine, he shall
certify his said determination upon the said certificate,
which shall thereupon be recorded in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court for the county in which
the principal office of said corporation shall, by the
terms of said certificate, be located, if it shall be
located in one of the counties of this state, or in the
office of the clerk of the superior court of Balti-
more city, if the principal office of said corporation
shall be located therein, and the said certificate shall
be recorded in a book provided for that special pur-
pose.

Judge to cer-
tify, certificate
to be recorded.

40. When the said certificate shall have been re-
corded, the persons who have signed and acknowledged
the same, and their successors shall, according to the
objects, purposes, articles, conditions and provisions in
said instrument contained, become, and be a body

Incorporated.