ART. 81] TAX ON GROSS RECEIPTS OF CERTAIN CORPORATIONS. 547.

agency of any corporation organized under the laws of this State,
or to open any office for the transaction of any business in this
State, shall first file in the office of the State tax commissioner a
certified copy of the charter, certificate or act of incorporation,
under which it claims the power to transact business as a corpora-
tion, and shall also file in the office of the secretary of State of
Maryland, a certificate of the appointment by such company or
corporation, of at least two agents to reside in this State, upon
whom legal process issued out of any court of this State, may at
any time be served in any action, at the suit of the State of
Maryland, or of any county or incorporated city or town of this '
State, or of any citizen or citizens of this State, or of any corpor-
ation organized under the laws of this State, which certificate
shall state fully the names of the agents to reside in this State
and shall be certified by such foreign corporation, under the seal
of such foreign corporation and the signature of its president or
other proper officer, and shall when received by the secretary of
State be recorded by him in a book to be kept for that purpose,
from which record the said secretary of State shall be able to
certify the appointment of such agents at any time; at the time
of receiving such certificate the secretary of State shall give to
such company a receipt for such certificate which receipt shall
enable such foreign corporation to commence business in this
State.

1890, ch. 608.

146-10. Any person or any officer of any such corporation
who shall presume to act as agent or employe of any such foreign
corporation, or to open an office for the transaction of the busi-
ness of any such foreign corporation, by employing or using the
patent rights, plant or property of such foreign corporation in
this State in any manner as renter or bailee, or in any other
manner under any contract with such foreign corporation before
the provisions contained in the first section of this article have
been complied with, shall forfeit and pay to the State of Mary-
land the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every day he
may act as such agent or employee, or may occupy such office
for the transaction of such business, before such provisions of
the first section of this article shall have been complied with by
such foreign corporation, and it shall be the duty of the State's