ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 411

93. Every foreign corporation, except insurance companies
hereinafter provided for, which has an office or place of busi-
ness in this State (including any corporation with or without
a usual office or place of business in this State, which purposes
to engage therein permanently or temporarily in the construc-
tion, alteration, erection or repair of any building, bridge,
railroad, railway or structure of any kind) shall, before doing
business therein, file with the State Tax Commission of Mary-
land: (1) an officially certified copy of its charter or certifi-
cate of incorporation; (2) a report to be filed annually there-
after on or before the fifteenth 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 a fee
of one dollar for filing such report, showing (a) the corporate
name; (b) the names and addresses of its president, treasurer,
secretary and members of its board of directors; (c) its main
office in this State and its principal office in the State of in-
corporation; (d) the amount of its capital stock authorized and
the amount issued, and the number and par value of the shares,
and the names and addresses of the corporation's shareholders
in this State, and the number of shares held by each; and in
such annual report shall be given such information as may be
required by the State Tax Commission in order to enable it to
determine the amount of capital employed in Maryland as of
January first of the year for which such report is filed; (e)
the name and address of its agent resident in this State, serv-
ice of process upon whom shall bind the corporation until the
appointment of a substitute is duly certified to the State Tax
Commission. The State Tax Commission shall preserve and
maintain a record book wherein shall be annually recorded

the name of the corporation; its main office in this State; the
amount of its capital employed in this State as determined by
the State Tax Commission; the amount of tax entered on the
capital employed in this State; and the name and address of
the resident agent on whom service of process may be made.
At the time of original qualification and filing of the original
papers required by this section, every such foreign corporation
shall pay to the State Tax Commission, for the use of the
State, a fee of twenty-five dollars, upon receipt of which the
Secretary of the State Tax Commission shall issue to it a
certificate setting forth that it is entitled to do business in this
State under the laws thereof, and for all fees collected the State
Tax Commission shall account quarterly to the Comptroller
and pay the same forthwith to the State Treasurer for the use