ART. 26.] CORPORATIONS.

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73. If on canvassing the votes, it shall appear that a
sufficient number of votes has been given in favor of
increasing or diminishing the amount of capital of said
corporation, a certificate of the proceedings showing a
compliance herewith, the amount of capital actually
paid in, and the amount to which the capital stock
shall be increased or diminished, shall be made out
and signed by the chairman, and such certificate shall

Certificate of
capital paid
in, &c

be sworn to by the president, and recorded in the office
of the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if
the principal office of said corporation shall be therein
located, or in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
of that county in which said principal office is located.

To be rocorded
in office of
clerk of court

74. Any corporation heretofore formed under the
general laws of this state, or under any special act for
any purpose for which a corporation may be formed
under this article, may cause itself to be incorporated

Corporations
heretofore
formed, may be
formed under
this article.

under this article; provided, the directors, managers or
trustees thereof give notice to the stockholders thereof,
required by the seventy-first section of this article, con-
taining the particulars therein set forth in the manner

Proviso
Notice

therein provided, and provided, that at the meeting
called in pursuance of such notice, or at any adjourned
meeting, there be present stockholders representing, in
person or by proxy, not less than two-thirds of all the
shares of the stock of the said corporation, and the
meeting be organized in the manner prescribed in the
seventy-second section of this article.
75. If at such meeting or any adjourned meeting of
said stockholders, a sufficient number of votes as afore-
said shall be given in favor of causing said corporation
to be incorporated under this article, then the said
meeting or any adjourned meeting, representing, as
aforesaid, two-thirds of all the shares of the said stock,

Proviso.

shall determine the number of shares into which the
capital stock of the new company shall be divided,
and the rule of the apportionment thereof, and the

To determine
the number of
shares of capi-
tal stock

person who shall be entitled to hold the same, and
also the name by which said new corporation shall be

Name of new
corporation.