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ceed to liquidate the assets of the corporation and close its
affairs.

(5) At the time of the delivery for record of articles of
dissolution, there shall be paid to the State Tax Commis-
sion a fee of fifteen dollars, out of which shall be paid the
cost of publication of the notice herein provided for, and
out of which a fee of two dollars shall be paid by the State
Tax Commission to the Clerk of the Circuit or Superior
Court to whom a copy of such articles of dissolution shall
be transmitted for recording, and for the balance the State
Tax Commission shall account quarterly to the Comptroller
and pay the same forthwith to the State Treasurer for the
use of the State. A duly certified copy of the articles of
dissolution from the records of the State Tax Commission
or the Circuit or Superior Court shall be evidence of the
dissolution of the corporation. The recording by the State
Tax Commission of the articles of dissolution shall be con-
clusive evidence of the payment of the fee required by law
to be paid to it, except in a direct proceeding by the State.

(6) Unless and until a receiver or receivers shall have
been appointed as hereinbefore provided, the directors of
any corporation dissolved pursuant to the provisions of this
Section, notwithstanding such dissolution, shall maintain
in the name of the corporation a principal office with at
least one resident agent in charge thereof for one year
after dissolution and thereafter until the affairs of the
corporation are wound up. The principal office and the
name or names and post-office address or addresses of the
resident agent or resident agents of the corporation at the
time of its dissolution shall be the principal office and the
name or names and the post-office address or addresses of
the resident agent or resident agents of the dissolved cor-
poration until the directors shall, in the manner provided
in Section 11 of this Article, notify the State Tax Commis-
sion of a change in the location of such principal office or
in the name or post-office address of any resident agent.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That four new Sec-
tions be and they are hereby added to Article 23 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (Edition of 1924), to be
known as Sections 106, 107, 108 and 109, to follow Section
105 of said Article and to read respectively as follows:

106. Any resident agent appointed pursuant to any
provision of this Article may file with the State Tax Com-
mission an instrument in writing consenting that any
process directed to be served on such resident agent or