ART. 56] TELEGRAPH AND EXPRESS COMPANIES. 144:9

1888, art. 56, sec 104. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 6

121. Any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership,
association or corporation proposing to do the business of
telegraphing for profit or hire within this State and any
express or transportation company, or any person, firm, part-
nership, association or corporation proposing to do the busi-
ness 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. sec. 105. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch 370, see. 7.

122. Service of legal process upon any of the officers or
agents of any person, firm, partnership, association, company
or corporation 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, association, company, or corporation; pro-
vided, a copy of such process 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, asso-
ciation, company, or corporation 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 postoffice
so directed with a sufficient postage stamp annexed to the
envelope containing the same.

Ibid. sec. 106. 1872, ch. 355. 1874, ch. 370, sec. 8.

123. If any telegraph company, person, firm, partnership, asso-
ciation, or corporation shall do the business of telegraphing for
profit or hire within this State or shall open any office or offices
for the transaction of such business, or if any express or
transportation company, or any person, firm, partnership,
association or corporation shall do the business of transport-
ing or forwarding any article of trade or traffic for profit or
hire within this State or shall open any office or offices for the
transaction of such business without having first obtained a
license to transact such business as aforesaid, the company,

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