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ranged, who are or shall have been within three years stockholders of said corporation, and showing their places of residence, the num- ber of shares held by them respectively, and the time when they respectively became the owner of such shares, which book shall,
during the usual business hours of every business day, be open for the inspection of stockholders or creditors of the corporation at the principal office of the said corporation in this State; and every officer or agent of any such corporation who shall neglect or refuse to ex- hibit the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and the	Open to stock- holders and creditors
corporation shall forfeit and pay to the party injured, a penalty of fifty dollars for every such neglect or refusal, and all the damages resulting therefrom, to be recovered in an action of debt before a justice of the peace.	Penalty
68. It shall be the duty of every corporation formed under this article, having a capital stock, to cause to be made in the first week in January and July in each and every year, a full and particular statement of the affairs of said company, verified by the oaths or affirmations of its president and treasurer, or chief finance officer, which statement shall consist of a particular account' of its assets and liabilities in minute details, calculated to the time of making up	Id s 68 Annual state- ment of affairs under oath
the statement as aforesaid. Each of the said statements so made up shall be recorded in a book kept in the principal office of the said corporation in this State.	To be recorded in corporation's office
69. Any corporation formed under this article, or under the general laws of this State, or under any special law, and having a capital stock, may increase or diminish the same to any amount that may be deemed sufficient and proper for the purposes of the cor- poration by complying with the provisions of the following sections,	Id s 69 How capital stock increased or diminished 37 Md 522
but every corporation incorporated under any special law, which shall so increase or diminish its capital stock, shall remain subject in other particulars to all the limitations contained in its charter, or in any supplement thereto; and every corporation incorporated under the general laws of this State, or under this article, which shall so diminish or increase its stock, shall remain subject in other particulars to the provisions of this article.	Corporation under special law
70. Before any corporation shall be entitled to diminish the amount of its capital stock, under the provisions of the last pre- ceding section, if the amount of its debts and liabilities shall exceed the amount of the capital to which it is proposed to be reduced, such amount of debts and liabilities shall be satisfied and reduced, so as not to exceed such diminished amount of capital.	Id s 70 Debts to be satisfied and reduced
7 1. Whenever any corporation shall desire to call a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of increasing or diminishing the amount of its capital stock, the directors, managers, or trustees shall publish a notice signed by at least a majority of them, in a newspaper published in the county or counties, or city where the principal office of said corporation is located, if any shall be pub- lished therein, for at least four successive weeks, and shall send or	Id s 71 Notice of meet- ing of stock- holders to increase, etc, capital stock