426 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 235
CHAPTER 235.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 93
of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, en-
titled "Corporations," sub-title "Foreign Corporations,"
and also to add an additional section to said Article 23
entitled "Corporations," sub-title "Foreign Corpora-
tions," said additional section to come in immediately
after said Section 93 of said Article and to be designated
93A, this Act having for its purpose the transfer of juris-
diction over foreign corporations from the Secretary of
State to the State Tax Commission of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 93 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, entitled "Corporations," sub-title "Foreign Cor-
porations," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

93. Every foreign corporation which has a usual office or
place of business in this State, except insurance companies
hereinafter provided for, but including any corporation which
is engaged in this State permanently or temporarily, and with
or without a usual place of business therein, in the construc-
tion, alteration, erection or repair of any building, bridge, rail-
road, railway or structure of any kind, shall, before doing
business herein, file with the State Tax Commission of Mary-
land, who shall record the same, (1) a certified copy of its
charter or certificate of incorporation; (2) a certificate to be
renewed annually before the first day of March in every year,
subscribed and sworn to by its president or treasurer, or a
majority of its board of directors and accompanied by the
annual fee of $1.00 for recording such renewal, showing (a),
the corporate name; (b) the names and addresses of its presi-
dent, treasurer, secretary and the members of its board of
directors; (c) its principal office in this State and in the
State of incorporation; (d) the amount of its capital stock
authorized and issued, the number and par value of the shares
and the amount paid in thereon, and the names and addresses
of its shareholders, in this State, and the number of shares
held by each, and the amount of its capital employed in this
State; (e) the name and address of its agent, resident in this
State, and authorized to accept service of process upon it;
(f) its willingness that so long as any liability remains out-