PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1393

"Public Roads," as enacted by Chapter 374 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland, of the Session of 1912.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 789.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 4 and
5 of Article 23 of Bagby's Code of 1912.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 4 and 5 of Article 23 as codified in Bagby's
Code of 1912, be and the same are hereby repealed, and the same
re-enacted to read as follows:

4. After the certificate is acknowledged before a Justice of
the Peace, his official character shall be certified by the Clerk
of the Circuit or Superior Court under his official seal; every
certificate shall be submitted to one of the judges of the judicial
circuit in which the principal office of the corporation will be
located, and shall, if such certificate is executed in conformity
with law, certify that fact thereon; when so certified such certifi-
cate shall be delivered to the Secretary of State, and upon pay-
ment (and not before) of the recording fees hereinafter pro-
vided for, shall endorse thereon the date and time of receipt
and promptly record the same in a book to be kept by him for
that purpose, and shall also issue to the corporation so formed
a certificate under the seal of his office, certifying that the
corporation possesses the powers and authorities granted under
the certificate of incorporation and the laws of the State of
Maryland. Upon receipt by the Secretary of State of such
Certificate of Incorporation and recording fees, the Secretary
of State shall transmit to the State Tax Commissioner an
abstract of such Certificate of Incorporation showing the in-
corporators and directors, the name of the corporation and
the amount of the capital stock authorized, which shall be
recorded by the State. Tax Commissioner in a book kept for that
purpose. At the time of receiving such certificates the Secre-
tary of State shall collect double the fees allowed by law to
Clerks of Courts for recording documents of similar length;
and one-fourth of the sum so collected shall be paid by him to
the State Tax Commissioner, to whom such abstract shall be
transmitted for record; and said Certificate issued by the
Secretary of State, or any certified copy thereof by him, shall
be prima facie evidence of the existence of said corporation