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make, sign, seal, and acknowledge before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate in writing, 111 which shall be stated:
1. The names in full and place of residence of the applicants. 2. The proposed corporate name of the corporation, which shall always include the name of the county or city in which it may be formed.	What it shall state
3. The object or purposes for which incorporation is sought, the time of its existence not to exceed forty years, and the articles, con- ditions, and provisions under which the incorporation is formed; provided, that the limitation as to the duration of existence of cor- porations formed under this act shall not apply to gaslight com- panies.	1876, c 349.
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 prin- cipal office of the corporation will be located. 5. The amount of capital stock (if any) of the corporation. 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.	1868, c 471, s 37
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 Older that the said judge may determine whether the said certificate is in conformity with the law.	Id s 38 Certificate to be submitted to judge.
3. 9. 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 Baltimore City, if the principal office of said cor- poration shall be located therein, and the said certificate shall be recorded in a book provided for that special purpose.	Id s 39 Judge to certify, certificate to be recorded
40. When the said certificate shall have been recorded, the per- sons who have signed and acknowledged the same, and their suc- cessors shall, according to the objects, purposes, articles, conditions, and provisions in said instrument contained, become, and be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name stated in such certificate.	Id s 40 Incorporated 31 Md 59, 40 Md 395.
41. A copy of such certificate, or of any amendments thereto, or of any paper relating to corporations, which is required by law	Id. s 41 Evidence of certificate, etc.