72 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 53.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 79 of
Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Corporations," as enacted by Chapter 240 of the Acts
of 1908.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 79 of Article 23 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, title "Corporations," as enacted by
Chapter 240 of the Acts of 1908, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows:

79. Nothing in this.Article shall be construed to affect the
provisions of the Baltimore City Charter or to repeal or
change any of the existing taxing laws of this State, except
so far as the same are hereby specifically changed; or to
repeal or to change any of the Public Local Laws of this
State other than taxing laws; or to authorize any corporation
now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated to exercise
any franchise for the furnishing of light, heat or electric
power within the City of Baltimore unless thereunto specifically
authorized by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and
nothing herein shall release any corporation from the payment
of any tax or the performance of any obligation to the State
or to any county or city therein due or existing on the first
day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and eight (1908),
or affect or change the remedy provided for the collection or
enforcement of the same. Nothing herein shall release, affect
or impair the rights of any creditor or creditors of any cor-
poration or the obligations or liability of any corporation or of
any stockholder or of any corporate office existing on the said
first day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and eight
(1908), or the remedies to enforce or protect the same.

Approved April 1, 1910.

CHAPTER 55.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 142,
Section 143 and Section 366 of Article 23 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Corporations," as
the same are numbered and set forth in the Code of 1904, as
legalized by Chapter 72 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of that year; said section relating to gas,
electric light and telephone and telegraph companies.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 142, Section 143 and Section 366 of Article