ART. 23] PROVISIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF CORPORATIONS. 85

1894, ch. 599.

20 A. Class 7 A. For conducting or carrying on in this State
and elsewhere, any lawful wholesale or retail trading, commercial
or mercantile business, where the principal office and place of
business of the corporation are located in this State.

1890, ch. 272.

29. Class 16. For the formation of savings institutions.
Reed v. Balto. Trust & Guar. Co., 72 Md. 533.

1896, ch. 114,

37 A. Class 25. For the protection and preservation of game
and fish in the State of Maryland.

1898, ch. 168.

37B. Class 26. For the formation of fire patrol, property
patrol, police patrol, land patrol and water patrol companies.

1892, ch. 666.

39 A. When the aforesaid certificate of union shall have been
executed, acknowledged and recorded as provided in section 39
of this article, all the property and assets belonging to said
former separate corporations of whatsoever nature and description
and all the powers and rights and all the debts and liabilities of
said former separate corporations of whatsoever nature and
description, shall upon such recording as aforesaid, be devolved
upon said new consolidated corporation, and every devise or
bequest in favor of either of the former separate corporations,
and which said former separate corporations would have been
capable of taking, shall devolve upon said new consolidated cor-
poration, which shall be regarded as substituted by operation of
law in the room and stead of said former separate corporation.
State, use of Dodson, v. Balto. & Lehigh R. R. Co., 77 Md. 492.

1896, ch. 410.

39 B. Any educational, charitable or other corporation, formed
under class one of this article, and having no capital stock, or
any corporation of a like character to those mentioned in said
class one, heretofore formed and now existing, and having no
capital stock, may unite with any other corporation incorporated
under said class one, and having no capital stock; provided, that