138 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23
or other officer of such corporation, and if neither the president
nor any of the directors, managers, ticket agents or other officers
of such corporation reside in this State such process may be served
anywhere within this State on any agent, attorney or other person
in the service of such corporation, provided that in every case the
officer serving process shall leave a copy of such process with the
person upon whom the same is served. And whenever any
trust or guarantee company which shall be authorized and em-
powered under the laws of this State to insure the fidelity of
persons holding places of trust or responsibility in, to or under
any State, county, city corporation, company, person or persons
whatsoever, or to become security for the faithful performance
of any trust, office, duty, contract or agreement, and to supersede
any judgments, or to go upon any appeal or other bond, then any
such trust or guarantee company shall be liable to be sued in any
of the counties of this State or in the city of Baltimore wherever
any such bond shall be given or liability incurred by such trust or
guarantee company, and process shall be served upon any such
trust or guarantee company, as is hereinbefore provided for by
this section, and such process shall be issued to the sheriff of any
county or the city of Baltimore, and shall be made returnable to
the clerk of the court of the county or city of Baltimore from
which same issued; and with the exceptions' herein provided for
as to trust and guarantee companies, all suits which shall hereafter
be brought against any corporation which has been or may be
incorporated under the general incorporation laws of this State,
shall be brought in the counties or city of Baltimore, as the case
may be, in which the certificate of incorporation is required to be
and has been recorded.
Fairfax, &c., Co. v. Chambers, 75 Md., 614.
1892, ch. 279.
304. No corporation, which under the laws of this State, shall
act as trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, committee or
receiver, or in any one or more of those capacities without bond
or security other than its own obligation, in any case in which
bond would be required from a natural person in the like or simi-
lar capacity, shall incur the liability of a surety upon any bond
of any sort or description, and all acts and parts of acts whether
general or special inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
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