296 CORPORATIONS——CERTIFICATE. [ART. 23.

principal office of said corporation shall be located in Baltimore
city, in order that the said judge may determine whether the said
certificate is in conformity with the law; and such determination,
when certified by the said judge as required by the next succeed-
ing section, shall be conclusive evidence that such certificate does
conform to the law.

Goodman v. Jedidjah Lodge, 67 Md. 129.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 39.

44. If the said judge shall so determine, he shall certify his
aaid determination upon the said certificate, which shall there-
upon 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 corporation shall be located therein; and the said
certificate shall be recorded in a book provided for that special
purpose.

Oler v. Balto. & Randallstown R. R. Co , 41 Md. 583.

Ibid. sec. 40.

45. When the said certificate shall have been recorded, the
persons who have signed and acknowledged the same, and their
successors shall, according to the objects, purposes, articles, con-
ditions 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.

Grape S. & V. Co. v. Small, 40 Md. 395.

Ibid. sec. 41.

46. A copy of such certificate, or of any amendments thereto,
or of any paper relating to corporations, which is required by law
to be recorded, when certified to be a true copy by the clerk of
the court in whose office the same is recorded, under the seal of
his office, shall be evidence in all legal proceedings, and in all the
courts of this State.

Ibid. sec. 42.

471 If any alteration or amendment of the articles or pro-
visons of the charter of any of said corporations, shall be made