LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

incorporated under the general laws of this State, and that it
is entitled to continue or to commence business in this State, as
the case may be.

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109 o. Any person or any officer of such corporation who
shall presume to act as agent or employe of any such foreign
corporation, or to open or continue an office for the transaction
of the business of any such foreign corporation, before the
provisions of this Act have been fully complied with, and
before said corporation shall have procured the aforesaid certifi-
cate from the Secretary of State, shall forfeit and pay to the
State of Maryland the sum of one hundred dollars for each
and every day he may act as such agent or employe, or may
occupy such office for the transaction of such business, and it
shall be the duty of the State's attorney for the city or county
in which such business is transacted, or is proposed to be trans-
acted, to prosecute for and recover such penalty ; provided,
that agents or officers of foreign corporations doing business in
this State at the date of the passage of this Act shall not be
held liable to the penalties herein prescribed until on and after
the first day of July, 1898.

Act as agent
or employe.

109 D. No such foreign corporation shall be permitted to
maintain any action, either at law or in equity in the courts of
this State, until the provisions of this Act shall have been com-
plied with; provided, that in the case of such corporations
doing business in this State at the date of the passage of this
Act, this section shall not apply until on and after the first day
of July, 1898.
109 E. Upon the application of any person interested, it shall

Permitted to
maintain
action.

be the duty of the Secretary of State to furnish copies of such
charters, certificates or acts of incorporation and sworn state-
ments ior which he shall be entitled to demand and receive
from the person so applying the usual fees for transcribing the
same, and he shall account quarterly to the Comptroller for the
deposit fees received by him under the provisions of this Act,
less the costs and expenses of recording: the same.

Copies to be
furnished.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

Effective.