1208 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 596

with the State Tax Commission in conformity with Section 8-A
of Article 23, may be made a defendant in an attachment in
the same manner as non-resident individuals, unless such cor-
poration shall have been incorporated under the laws of this
State prior to June 1, 1916, and have at least one director who
is a citizen of this State actually residing therein.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 29 and 30
of Article 10 of the Annotated Code of Maryland be and the
same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Sections 1, 3, 4 and
5 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read respectively as follows:

1. (1) Except as therein otherwise provided, the sections
of this Article, numbered 1 to 37, 61 to 63 and 66 to 104, all
inclusive, shall become and be operative on and after the first
day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and eight (1908),
and the provisions thereof shall apply to and govern all cor-
porations then existing and thereafter formed, and all corpo-
rate acts thereafter done; provided (first), that nothing in said
sections contained shall be construed to affect the existence of
any then existing corporation or to impair the validity of any
corporate act done and performed in accordance with the pre-
existing law; and provided (second), that in the event of any
inconsistency between any of the provisions of said sections
and the rights conferred by any special act or any legally au-
thorized agreement of consolidation passed or filed prior to
said first day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and eight
(1908), the provisions of said special act or agreement of con-
solidation shall prevail to the extent of such inconsistency; and
provided (third), that in the event of any inconsistency be-
tween any of the provisions of said sections and the provisions
made for particular classes of corporations by the subsequent
sections of this article, the latter shall prevail to the extent of
such inconsistency; and provided (fourth), that nothing herein
shall be taken or construed as preventing the formation and
management under the provisions, of said sections, and without
reference to the provisions made for particular classes of cor-
porations by the laws of this State, of corporations for con-
structing, maintaining and operating railroads or railways or
telegraph or telephone lines, to be located entirely outside of
this State, or of water or mining corporations conducting their