1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP. 89

CHAPTER 89.

Passed Feb. 23, 1835

An act to regulate the proceedings of Foreign Corporations
within this State

Insuring or con

tracting business

in this State

construed as ex-

ercising franchi-

ses

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That any Insurance Company not chartered by the
laws of this state, which shall effect, or shall have effected
insurance upon any property real or personal, or upon life
or lives, within this state, and any corporation, not charter
ed by the laws of this state which shall transact or shall
have transacted business within this state, shall be deemed
to hold and exercise franchises within this state

And liable to nut

Sec. 2 And be it enacted, That where any Insurance
company or other corporation, as aforesaid, shall hold and
exercise, or shall have held and exercised franchises, as
aforesaid, within this State, such Insurance company or oth-
er corporations, shall be liable to suit within this State, in
the courts of this State upon contracts of insurance on pro-
perty or lives within this State, or on any dealing or trans-
action in this State

Service of process

Sec 3 And be it enacted, That when any suit shall be in-
stituted against such Insurance company or other corpora-
tions so chartered as aforesaid, that service of the writ issued
in such cause upon the President or any Directors of such
company, or upon any agent of such company or corpora-
tion, shall be deemed sufficient service upon such company
or corporation, and if the company or corporation shall fail
to appear at the first term after such service as aforesaid,

Judgment by de-

fault

judgment shall on proof to the satisfaction of the court of
the agency aforesaid, be tendered by default, against said
company or corporation, for the amount of the plaintiffs
claim, to be proved to and ascertained by a jury upon inqui-
ry by it executed at bar as in cases of ascertainment of da-
mages by jury or judgments by default

Case of revoking

Agent &c

Sec 4 And be it enacted, That if any such company or
corporation, Shall after any liability shall occur or shall have
occurred Within this state, withdraw its agents from this
State, or shall revoke the authority of any agent and shall
not appoint another agent within this State, and no Presi-
dent or Director of said company or corporation can be
found within this state, upon whom to serve any writ or
process, that service of any writ or process issued as afore
said, upon the person last the agent of such company or