EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1209

operations entirely outside of this State; and provided (finally),
that unless therein otherwise stated, the said sections shall be
available to all corporations of this State as alternative to and
not in substitution for any inconsistent provisions contained in
any such special act or agreement of consolidation or in the
provisions made for particular classes of corporations by the
subsequent sections of this article.

(2) The words "Clerk of the Circuit or Superior Court"
used herein, shall be taken to mean the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for a county, or the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore City, as the case may be.

(3) The word "directors" shall include trustees, managers
'and the members of the governing body of the corporation, by
whatever name they may be called.

(4) The words "stockholders" and "shareholders" shall
include members in the case of corporations having no capital
stock, and vice versa, unless such construction would be incon-
sistent with the context.

(5) The location of the principal office of a corporation
shall be the place named as such in the charter; and when the
location of the principal office is not so named, it shall be
deemed to be the place where the main office of such corporation
in this State for the transaction of business is actually situated.

(6) The word "Charter" shall include charter granted by
special act, certificate of incorporation and agreement of con-
solidation, either as originally passed or filed or as amended,
unless such construction would be inconsistent with the context.

3. The incorporators, being any three or more adult per-
sons shall sign and at least three of them shall acknowledge a
certificate of incorporation in which shall be stated:

(a) That the subscribers thereto (giving their names and
postoffice addresses) associate themselves with the intention of
forming a corporation;

(b) The name of the proposed corporation, which shall al-
ways be such as to indicate that it is a corporation as distin-
guished from a natural person or a partnership. This pro-
vision shall be deemed to be complied with if the name of the
corporation begin with the word "The" and end with the word
"Company, " or if the name contain the word "Corporation"
or the word "Incorporated; "