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upon any bond of any sort or description. Whenever in any
section of this Article, any insurance company shall be directed
to file a certified copy of its charter or other papers, or any
statement of its condition or affairs with the Clerk of any Court
of this State, or with the State Tax Commissioner, or with
any other officer or official of this State than the Insurance
Commissioner, the filing of the same with the Insurance Com-
missioner shall be a full compliance with every such require-
ment, and all Acts and parts of Acts, whether general or spei-
cial, inconsistent with any provision of Section 379, Section
380 or Section 381, are hereby repealed to the extent of such
inconsistency.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after June 1, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 402.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 21
of Chapter 180 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of the year 1910, entitled "An Act to create and
establish a Public Service Commission, and prescribing, its
powers and duties, and to provide for the regulation
and control of Public Service Corporations and Public Util-
ities, and making appropriations therefor."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 21 of Chapter 180 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland of the year 1910, entitled "An Act
to create and establish a Public Service Commision, and pre-
scribing its powers and duties and to provide for the regula-
tion and control of public service corporations and public util-
ities, and making appropriations therefor," be and. the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 21. The commission shall prescribe the form of the
annual reports required under this Act to be made by common
carriers, railroads, street railroads, railroad corporations and
street railroad corporations, and all other corporations subject
to the provisions of this Act, and may from time to time make
such changes therein and additions thereto as it may deem
proper; provided, however, that if any such changes or addi-
tions require any alteration in the method or form of keeping