940 LICENSES. [ART. 56.

poration, to do the business of transporting or forwarding goods

or packages of any sort, or of any article of trade or traffic for
profit or hire within this State, without first obtaining a license
therefor, as hereinafter provided.

1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370.

104. Any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership, asso-

ciation or corporation, proposing to do the business of telegraph-
ing for profit or hire within this State, and any express or
transportation company, or any person, firm, partnership, associa-
tion or corporation, proposing to do the business of transporting
or forwarding for profit or hire within this State, goods or
packages of any sort, or any article of trade or traffic, shall pay
to the comptroller for a license to do such business in this State,
for one year, the sum of three hundred dollars, or a proportional
part of said sum for any fractional part of a year not less than
one month; and all licenses so issued shall be made to expire on
the first day of May next succeeding the date of their issue.

Ibid.

105. Service of legal process upon any of the officers or agents

of any person, firm, partnership, association, company or corpora-
tion, transacting said business of telegraphing or of transporting

or forwarding for profit or hire as aforesaid, within this State,

shall be a sufficient service on the person, firm, partnership, asso-

ciation, company, or corporation; provided, a copy of such pro-
cess shall be placed in the post-office, by the officer serving the
same, directed to the officer in charge of the principal office of
said person, firm, partnership, association, company, or corpora-
tion in the city of Baltimore; and such officer in making return

of such process shall certify to the court, on the day of said service,
that he complied with the provisions of this section, by placing
such copy in the post office so directed, with a sufficient postage

stamp annexed to the envelope containing the same.

Ibid.

106. If any telegraph company, firm, partnership, association,

or corporation, shall do the business of telegraphing for profit

or hire within this State, or shall open any office or offices for the