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PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CORPORATIONS. [ART. 67.

Baltimore city, or if not incorporated under the laws requiring such
certificate to be filed, the said corporation had its principal office
last in said city, or had there last carried on its principal business,
then in such cases the said petition shall be filed in the Superior
Court of Baltimore City.

Id s 183.
Appeal to Court
of Appeals

8. From any judgment or determination of the court had on
petitions filed for forfeiture under this article, either party may
appeal to the Court of Appeals, subject to such regulations and
provisions relating to the taking and prosecution of said appeals as
shall be prescribed by the said Court of Appeals.

Id. s. 184.
Powers of
governor.

9. The governor of this State shall have power, upon application
in writing made to him by any citizen thereof, in the exercise of his
own discretion, to direct the attorney-general, or State's attorney
for any county in this State, or for the city of Baltimore, to file a
bill in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, or in the Circuit Court
of any county, in the name of the State, against any corporation
incorporated under the laws of this State, for the purpose of re-

Injunction.

straining, by injunction, any such corporation from assuming or
exercising any franchise, liberty, or privilege, or transacting any
business not allowed by the charter, certificate, or amended certifi-
cate of incorporation of said corporation, or not by law allowed to
be assumed or exercised by said corporation, and in the same man-

Bill to restrain

ner, and by like authority, a bill may be filed to restrain any indi-
viduals from exercising any corporate rights, privileges or franchises,
not granted to them by any law of this State; and such bill, when

Where filed.

filed against a corporation, shall be filed in the Circuit Court of
Baltimore City, if the principal office or place of its business opera-
tions of said corporation shall be located therein, or in the Circuit
Court of the county in which the principal office or place of its
business operations of said corporation shall be located; and if the
said bill is filed against any individuals, it shall be filed in the city
or county in which some one of the individuals sought to be re-
strained may reside; and upon the filing of any such bill, the court

Power of court

in which it shall be filed shall have power to issue the injunction
either before or after hearing, and under and on such terms as it
may prescribe, and generally shall have and exercise all the powers
of a court of equity over the subject-matter of said bill, and all
provisions of the laws of this State relating to the granting, con-
tinuing or dissolving of injunctions in other cases, and providing
for appeals to the Court of Appeals, which may be applicable, shall
apply to proceedings had under this section.

DISSOLUTION OF CORPORATIONS.

1868, c 471, s 185
Insolvent cor-
porations, how
proceeded
against.

10. Whenever any corporation in this State shall have been de-
termined by legal proceedings to be insolvent, it shall be deemed to
have surrendered its corporate rights, privileges, and franchises,
and may be adjudged to be dissolved, after a hearing according to
the practice of courts of equity in this State, upon a bill filed for