FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendment, so as
to read as follows :

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264. Whenever any corporation in this State shall have
been determined by legal proceedings to be insolvent, or shall
be proven to be insolvent by proof offered under any bill tiled
under the provisions of this section, it shall be deemed to have
surrendered its corporate rights, privileges and franchises, and
may be adjudged to be dissolved after the hearing, according
to the practice of courts of equity in this State, upon a bill
filed for that purpose in the Circuit Court of Baltimore city
or in the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore city, if the princi-
pal office of the corporation is located therein, or in the Circuit
Court of any county, if the principal office or place of business
of said corporation be therein located, or if the certificate of
its incorporation be recorded therein; and such bill may be
filed by any stockholder, shareholder or creditor of said corpo-
ration, or by the Attorney-General of the State of Maryland,
or by the State's attorney of the city or county in which the
principal office of said corporation is located. But this section
shall not apply to any railroad company chartered by this
State.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 264.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay Patrick H.
Cooney and others for discharging the duties of the office of
Inspector of Oysters, during the season beginning the
fifteenth day of September, 1893, and ending the thirty-first
day of March, 1894.

Insolvent
corporations.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by ike General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the State be and he is
hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the
Treasurer of the State for $359.41 in favor of Patrick H.
Cooney, Inspector of Oysters for Baltimore city; for $359.41
in favor of James Cuassack, Inspector of Oysters for Anne
Arundel county; for .$359.41 in favor of Wm. S. Dawson,
Inspector of Oysters for Oxford, in Talbot county; for
$359.41 in favor of J. E. Mortimer, Inspector of Oysters for
St. Michaels, in Talbot county; for $359.35 in favor of

To pay
claims.