386 CORPORATIONS—FORFEITURE OF CHARTER. [ART. 23.

tions 257 and 258, shall be of opinion that no cause of forfeiture
has been shown, or that the public interests do not demand that
such forfeiture should be decreed, even though legal cause therefor
has been shown, it shall dismiss the petition and award costs in
favor of the corporation proceeded against, in its discretion; and
if the court shall determine that legal cause of forfeiture has been
shown, it may, in its discretion, before passing a final decree of
forfeiture, pass orders requiring the said corporation, within a time
to be therein fixed, to remedy the grievance complained of, and
may suspend the passage of the final decree of forfeiture until the
time so fixed, and may afterwards refuse to pass such decree, if
the grievance shall have been remedied by the time so fixed.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 182.

261. The petition for forfeiture, hereinbefore mentioned, shall
be filed in the circuit court for the county in which the certificate
of incorporation of said corporation was filed, if said corporation
shall have been incorporated under the laws, requiring the filing of
such certificate, or under this article; and in the case of all other
corporations such petition shall be filed in the county in which
either the principal office of said corporation was last located, or
in which the principal business of said corporation was last car-
ried on; but if the corporation to be proceeded against has filed
the certificate of incorporation in Baltimore city, or if not incor-
porated 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 and in such cases
the said petition shall be filed in the superior court of Baltimore
city.

Ibid. sec. 183.

262. 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 ap-
peals as shall be prescribed by the said court of appeals.

Ibid. sec. 184.

263. The governor of this State shall have power, upon appli-
cation in writing made to him by any citizen thereof, in the