ACT. 23. ] CORPORATIONS. ' 49

SEC. 61. The petition for forfeiture hereinabove mentioned
shall be filed in the Circuit Court for the county or in the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, according to the location of
the principal office of the corporation. And from any final
judgment or determination of the court in proceedings here-
under, either party may appeal to the Court of Appeals as
provided by Sections 68 and 69 of Article 5 of the Code of 1904.

Suit and Process Against Domestic Corporations,

SEC. 62. Process issued by any court or justice of the peace
of this State against any corporation thereof may be served on
any president, director, manager, or other officer; and if none
reside in this State, such corporation. may be proceeded
against by attachment as a non-resident, or such process may
be served on any agent, or other person in the service of the
corporation; provided, that in all cases mentioned in this sec-
tion, the officer serving process shall leave a copy thereof with
the person upon whom it is served. Every corporation of this
State may be sued in any county or in the city of Baltimore, as
the case may be, where its principal office is located, or where
it regularly transacts business or exercises its franchises, or in
any local action, where the subject matter thereof lies; and
process against such corporation may be served as is herein-
above provided, and may be directed to the sheriff of any
county or of the city of Baltimore, returnable to the clerk
of the court out of which same issued. And whenever any cor-
poration of this State has become surety on any bond required
by law to be filed in any court thereof or with any register of
wills, public board or official—suit against such corporation
on such bond may be brought in the city or county where the
same is filed.

SEC. 63. It shall be sufficient in any suit, pleading or pro-
cess, either at law or in equity or before a justice of the peace
against any corporation, to describe it by the name or title
by which it is commonly known or by or under which its busi-
ness is transacted.

Consolidation of Corporations Having No Capital Stock.

SEC. 64. Any educational, charitable or other corporation
formed under the provisions of this article and having no
capital stock, or any corporation formed for the operation
and maintenance of educational, moral, scientific, literary,
dramatic, social, benevolent or beneficial societies of any de-
scription, or formed for any religious object or for maintaining
fire engine and hose companies, or uniformed volunteer com-