588 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

owners in their respective lots shall descend as real estate to
heirs, may be devised by will or may be disposed of by the
owner by sale, with the approval of the president and managers
of the corporation.

1868, art. 23, sec. 108. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 82.

135. A certificate under the seal of the corporation of the
ownership of any lot sold or conveyed as aforesaid shall in all
respects have the same effect as any conveyance from such
corporation of said lot would have if executed, acknowledged
and recorded, as conveyances of real estate are by the laws of
this State required to be.

Ibid sec. 109. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 83. 1884, ch 22 1898, ch. 178

136. Any person or persons, his, her or their aiders or
abettors, who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or
remove any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure
placed in any cemetery, or any building, wall, fence, railing or
other work, for the use, protection or ornament of any public
or private cemetery in this State, or shall wilfully destroy, cut,
break or remove any tree, plant or shrub within its limits, or
who shall shoot or discharge any fire-arms within said limits,
or who shall be guilty of indecent or disorderly conduct within
said limits shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction or before
any justice of the peace of this State shall be punished by
fine, not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, or imprisonment in the county jail or the Maryland house
of correction for not less than thirty days, nor more than two
years, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of
said justice or court, according to the gravity of the offence.
Any justice of the peace in this State, except civil justices in
the city of Baltimore, shall have jurisdiction under this section.

Foreign Corporations.

1898, ch. 270, sec. 109 A.

187. Every corporation incorporated by or under the laws
of the United States, or of any State or territory of the United
States other than the State of Maryland, or of any foreign
country, except telephone, banking, insurance and railroad
companies, electric light or construction companies, and oil or
pipe line companies, now doing business in the State of Mary-
land, or which shall desire to commence business in this State,