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Revised Code of the Public General Laws, 1879
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322 FORMATION, POWERS, AND REGULATION OF CORPORATIONS. [ART. 40.

Id B 54
Vacancy among
managers, etc

54. When any vacancy shall happen among the trustees, di-
rectors, or managers, by death, resignation, or otherwise, it shall be
filled for the remainder of the year or other term, in such manner
as may be provided by the by-laws of the said corporation.

Id s S3
Failure to elect.

55. If it shall happen at any time that an election of trustees,
directors, or managers shall not be made on the day designated by
the by-laws of the said corporation, the corporation, for that reason,
shall not be dissolved; but it shall be lawful on any other day to
hold such election in such manner as may be provided by the by-
laws, and all acts of trustees or managers shall be valid as against
such corporation until their successors shall be elected.

Id s 56
Subscriptions to
capital stock
47 Md 120.

56. Subscriptions to the capital stock of such of said corpora-
tions as have capital stock, may be made in land or other property
at a valuation agreed upon between the corporation and the sub-
scriber, where the said property so subscribed shall be such as it is
proper that the said corporation shall own for the advancement of
the purposes for which it was incorporated, but such subscriptions
shall not be otherwise received, nor shall they be so received unless
the same shall have been previously authorized by the stockholders
assembled in general meeting, pursuant to a call to consider the
propriety of receiving the said subscription and of fixing the terms
upon which it shall be received.

Id s 57
Books to show
when property
received for
stock
24 Md 527,
47 Md 121.

57. Where property of any kind is received by the authority of
the stockholders in general meeting as aforesaid, in payment for
stock, the books of the company shall be so kept as to show at all
times fully what property was received for the said stock, at what
value and the number of shares of the capital stock issued for the

Money payment
for stock.

same; in all other cases money only shall be considered as payment
of a subscription to any part of the capital stock.

Id s 58
Slock, personal
property.

58. The stock, of any corporation created under this article,
shall be deemed personal estate, and shall be transferable as shall
be prescribed by the by-laws of the corporation, and no shares

Transfers

shall be transferable until all previous calls thereon shall have been
paid in, or shall have been declared forfeited for the non-payment
of the calls thereon.

1872, c 203,
1872, c 329
Liability of
stockholders
24 Md 527, 32
Md 294, 34 Md.
316, 485, 492, 503,
35 Md In, 36
Md 154, 464, 476,
37 Md 52 1, 40
Md 123, 41 Md
305, 563, 47 Md
201
When capital
stock to be paid
in

59. All the stockholders of any such corporation shall be sever-
ally and individually liable to the creditors of the corporation of
which they are stockholders, to an amount equal to the amount of
stock held by them respectively, for all debts and contracts made
by the corporation, until the whole amount of the capital stock
fixed and limited by the corporation shall have been paid in, and a
certificate thereof made and filed, as prescribed in the following
section of this article, which certificate may, however, be filed at
any time after thirty days, mentioned in said section; but no stock-
holder shall be individually liable to the creditors of such corpora-
tion, except to the amount of his, her, or their unpaid subscription
to the capital stock; and the capital stock so fixed and limited shall
be paid in, one-fourth thereof in one year, one-fourth in two years,



 

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