362 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 198

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 278 of Article 16 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Chancery", be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

278. The Court shall, on application of a party in interest,
or may, of its own motion, order that instead of the mode of
taking testimony as provided in the aforegoing sections, the
testimony shall be taken orally in open Court before the Judge
or Judges thereof in the same manner and under the same
rules as testimony is now taken in actions at law, as to all
or any of the facts or matters relevant in the cause or pro-
ceeding; and the evidence so taken shall be written down as
delivered by the witnesses by such person and in such manner
as the Court may have by order or general rule directed, and
when so written down shall, with such documentary proof as
shall have been with it offered and admitted, be filed as part
of the proceedings, provided, however, that where the evidence
so taken has been taken in shorthand and no appeal has been
noted, the same need not be afterwards written down or type-
written, or filed unless the Court in which such case was tried
shall in its discretion by its order so direct.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1. 1937.

Approved May 18, 1937.

CHAPTER 198.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 93
of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Corporations", sub-title "Dissolution".

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 93 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Corporations", sub-title "Dis-
solution", be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

93. (a) No corporation shall be dissolved by decree of any
court of this State unless there shall have been filed in such
court a certificate of counsel of record that notice that dis-
solution of the corporation by decree of such court was pro-
posed had been mailed by registered mail to the Comptroller