640 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

Municipal Corporations.

1888, art. 23, sec. 157, 1876, ch. 367.

241. Any municipal corporation in this State, against which
there is a judgment or decree in any court of law or equity in
this State, shall have power to levy a sum of money upon the
assessable property of such municipality sufficient to pay such
judgments.

Watts v Port Deposit, 46 Md. 500. Darling v. M. & C. C of Balto., 51 Md. 2.

Railroad Companies.

Ibid. sec. 158 1876, ch. 242.

242. Any number of natural persons, not less than five,
three of whom shall be citizens of Maryland, may become a
body corporate, with all the rights, privileges and powers con-
ferred by and subject to all the restrictions of sections 242 to
300 of this article.

Ibid. sec. 159. 1876, ch. 242, sec. 3.

243. Any number of persons as aforesaid, associating to
form a company for the purpose of constructing or operating
a railroad, shall, under their hands and seals, make a certifi-
cate, which shall specify as follows: first, the name assumed,
by such company and by which it shall be known; second,
the name of the places, of the termini of said road, and the
county or counties, city or cities, through which such road
shall pass; third, the amount of capital stock necessary to
construct such road; such certificate shall be acknowledged
before a justice of the peace, and certified by the clerk of the
circuit court for any county through which the road passes;
and 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 county where it
was acknowledged may lie, or to one of the judges of the
supreme bench of Baltimore city, if acknowledged in said city,
in order that the said judge may determine whether said cer-
tificate is in conformity with the law; and if the said judge
shall so determine, he shall certify his said determination upon
the said certificate, which shall be forwarded to the secretary
of State, who shall record and carefully preserve the same in
his office; and a copy thereof, duly certified by the secretary
of State, under the great seal of the State of Maryland, shall
be evidence of the existence of such company.

Penna. R. R. Co. v. Consolidation Coal Co., 55 Md. 160, 174. C. & P. R.
R. Co. v. Penna. R. R. Co., 57 Md. 280. Koch v. North Ave. Ry. Co., 75.
Md. 224.