ART. 23] INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 103

Any company applying for admission into this State, shall pay
for license in like proportion for a fractional part of a year, so
that all licenses issued shall expire on the thirty-first day of
December next ensuing; in addition to the above license and
tax, there shall be paid by each insurance company, individual,
resident or non-resident, partnership or association, whether of
this State, or otherwise doing business in this State, the following
fees to defray the expenses of executing the provisions of this
article: Upon filing the declaration or certified copy of charter,
hereafter admitted to do business in this State, twenty-five dol-
lars; upon filing each annual statement, twenty-five dollars; for
each certificate of authority, which each agent or solicitor of
every insurance company not organized under the laws of this
State and doing herein the business of insurance in any of its
branches, is hereby required to obtain, the sum of ten dollars;
provided, however, that sub-agents or solicitors who may be
appointed by the general agent of any life or accident insurance
company in this State shall only be required to pay for these
respective certificates of authority the sum of two dollars; for
each abstract of their annual statement for publication, two dol-
lars; for every copy of any paper filed in the insurance depart-
ment, the sum of twenty cents per folio; and for affixing the
official seal to such copy and certifying the same, one dollar; for
valuing policies of life insurance companies, thirty dollars per
million of insurance or any fractional part thereof; for official
examination of companies under this article, the charges speci-
fied in the 8th paragraph of section 122 of this article; provided,
that the filing of the papers with the Insurance Commissioner,
as required by this article, shall be in lien of all papers now
required by law to be filed with the Comptroller and clerk of
the Superior Court of Baltimore city, and the certificate of
authority issued to any solicitor of a foreign insurance company,
whether he be a solicitor for a life insurance company or a fire
insurance company, or for an insurance company doing the busi-
ness of insurance in any of its branches, shall have specified upon
its face the name of the company f or which said solicitor is
authorized to act.

1894, ch. 258.

127. Any person, body politic or corporate, partnership or
association, who or which shall make, negotiate or solicit within