50 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

panies, or for conducting and carrying on universities, col-
leges, academies, hospitals or asylums and having no capital
stock may unite with corporations incorporated for a similar
purpose and having no capital stock, provided that the majority
of the members of each of the corporations forming such union
shall assent thereto; such union or consolidation shall be made
upon such terms and conditions and shall have such name as
shall be agreed upon by said corporations forming such union;
a certificate of such union or consolidation and the provisions
thereof shall be executed by the said corporations and be
acknowledged and recorded as other certificates of incorpora-
tion are in this article directed to be acknowledged and re-
corded, and thereupon all the property and assets belonging
to said former separate corporations and all their powers and
rights and all the debts and liabilities of said former separate
corporations shall be devolved upon said new consolidated cor-
poration, and every devise or bequest in favor of either of the
former separate corporations which it would have been capable
of taking shall devolve upon said new consolidated corpora-
tions, which shall be regarded as substituted by operation of
law in the place and stead of said former separate corpora-
tions.

FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.

Definition.

SEC. 65. The term, foreign corporation, as used in this arti-
cle, shall mean every corporation, association or organization,
other than a national bank, which has been established, organ-
ized or chartered under laws other than those of this State.

Submission to the Laws of this State.

SEC. 66. No foreign corporation shall engage or continue in
any kind of business in this State, the transaction of which by
domestic corporations is not permitted by the laws thereof.
And every foreign corporation doing business in this State
shall be deemed thereby to have assented to all the provisions
of the laws thereof.

Suit and Process.

SEC. 67. Any person or corporation, whether a resident or a
non-resident of this State, may sue any foreign corporation
regularly doing business or regularly exercising any of its
franchises herein for any cause of action. Such suit may be
brought in any county or in the city of Baltimore, as the case
may be, where its principal office in this State, named in the
certificate provided for by the next succeeding section of this
article, is located or where it regularly transacts business or