1210 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 596

(e) The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is
formed and the business or objects to be carried on and pro-
moted by it.

(d) The postoffice address of the place at which the prin-
cipal office of the corporation in this State will be located and
the name or names and postoffice address or addresses of the
corporation's resident agent or agents, (giving in each case
the county and city, town or place and street and number, if
number there be).

(e) The total amount of capital stock, if any, of the pro-
posed corporation, and the number and par value of the shares;
and the restrictions, if any, imposed upon the transfer of the
shares. If the capital stock is to be classified under the power
hereinafter granted, the certificate of incorporation shall also
set forth a description of each class, with the preferences, voting
powers, restrictions and qualifications of each class and the
number and par value of the shares of each class.

(f) The number of trustees, directors or managers, which
shall not be less than three; and the names of those who shall
act as such until the first annual meeting or until their suc-
cessors are duly chosen and qualified.

(g) Any provisions which may be desired, for the purpose
of defining, limiting and regulating the powers of the corpora-
tion, and of the directors and stockholders or any class of the
stockholders; provided, such provisions are not contrary to
the law of this State or inconsistent with any of the terms and
limitations of this article. Any provision which is hereinafter
in this article authorized to be made in the by-laws, may, if
desired, be made in the certificate of incorporation.

4. Every certificate of incorporation, together with a copy
thereof, shall be delivered to the State Tax Commission, which,
upon the payment, and not before, of the recording fees, for
which provision is hereinafter made, and upon the payment,
and not before, of the bonus tax, if any, prescribed by law,
shall receive the same for record and endorse thereon the date
and time of such receipt and promptly record the same, to-
gether with the endorsements thereon, in a book to be kept
for that purpose. After such recording the State Tax Com-
mission shall transmit the original certificate of incorporation
to the Secretary of State, by whom the same shall be again
recorded, and shall transmit a copy thereof, duly certified by it,
to the Clerk of the Circuit or Superior Court (according to the