1830 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81

porated after the 21st day of March, 1894, shall have or exer-
cise any corporate powers until said bonus has been paid to
the State treasurer. Whenever any company of the character
aforesaid, incorporated prior to said date, shall be authorized
to increase its capital stock, it shall pay a tax of one-eighth of
one per centum to the State treasurer for the use of the State
upon the amount of increase said company is authorized to
have; said bonus shall be due and payable upon the recording
of the certificate of increase authorized, or upon the passage
of any special act authorizing such increase.
Roland Park Co. v. State, 80 Md. 450. State v. Schultz Co. 83 Md. 62.

1894, ch. 114, sec. 88 G.

99. If any corporation or company from which said bonus
shall be due shall fail or neglect to pay the same to the
treasurer of the State for the space of two months after the
same has been due and payable as aforesaid it shall be the
duty of the comptroller to make out said account against such
corporation and certify the same under the seal of his office
and transmit the same to some attorney in whom he has confi-
dence and to cause suit to be brought for the recovery of said
bonus; but no acquittance shall be good to discharge such
corporation from such bonus but the receipt of the treasurer
of the State or the proper officer to whom execution on judg-
ment may issue.

1894, ch. 144, sec. 88 H.

100. Suit for the recovery of such bonus shall be brought
in the county where the incorporation papers of such corpora-
tion are recorded or where the principal office of such company
is located, or in the city of Baltimore if the incorporation
papers of such company are there recorded, or the principal
office of such company is there located, and the service of the
writ of summons upon any officer or agent of such company or
upon any stockholder or incorporator in such company shall
be deemed and taken as sufficient service on such corporation
upon the return of the writ issued against such corporation;
and such corporation being summoned as aforesaid the cause
shall stand for trial or hearing according to the laws and the
respective rules of courts of this State, and if judgment shall
be rendered against such corporation a fee of ten dollars shall
be allowed the attorney for the State to be taxed in the plain-
tiffs costs