ART. 23] CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. 555

to form a corporation for any of the purposes hereinbefore
referred to, shall make, sign, seal and acknowledge before some
officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, a cer-
tificate in writing in which shall be stated :

1. The names in full and places of residence of the appli-
cants.

2. The proposed corporate name of the corporation, which
shall always include the name of the county or city in which
it may be formed.

3. The object or purposes for which incorporation is sought,
the time of its existence not to exceed forty years, and the
articles, conditions and provisions .under which the corpora-
tion is formed; provided, that the limitation as to the duration
of the existence of corporations formed under this article shall
not apply to gas light companies, cemetery companies, or to
corporations formed for the creation or maintenance of educa-
tional associations, universities, colleges, academies, hospitals
or asylums, and that certificates of incorporation of all cor-
porations named in the proviso may contain provisions for
perpetual existence.

Order Int. Frat. All. v. State, 77 Md. 561.

4. The place or places where the operations of the corpora-
tion are to be carried on, and the place in this State in which
the principal office of the corporation will be located.

5. The amount of capital stock (if any) of the corporation.

6. The number of shares of stock (if any) and the amount
of each share.

7. The number or trustees, directors or managers, and their
names, who shall manage the concerns of the corporation for
the first year.

1888, art. 23, sec. 43. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 38...1888, ch. 454.
51. When said certificate is executed, it shall be the duty of
the persons executing the same to submit it to one of the
judges of the judicial circuit, within which the principal or any
other office of said corporation is, under said certificate, to be
located, if it shall be located in one of the counties of this
State, or to one of the judges of the supreme bench of Balti-
more city, if the principal office of said corporation shall be
located in Baltimore city, in order that the said judge may
determine whether the said certificate is in conformity with the
law; and such determination, when certified by the said judge