634 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 20

Also favorably

SENATE BILL No. 466, BY MR. BENNETT.

SUBJECT: PRIMARY ELECTIONS.

[Which favorable report was adopted, which was read the
second time and ordered printed for a third reading. ']

Mr. Ogden, from Committee on Judicial Proceedings, re-
ported favorably, with amendments,

SENATE BILL No. 342, BY MR. OGDEN.

SUBJECT: CORPORATION LAWS OF THE STATE.

Amendments proposed by Committee:

No. 1—"In jection 3, pages 5 and 6 of the printed Bill,
strike out Section 4 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code as
re-enacted thereby, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

'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 location of the principal office of the corporation) by
whom the same shall again be recorded. At the time of re-
ceiving such certificate of incorporation for record, the State
Tax Commission shall collect recording fees of ten dollars;
three dollars and fifty cents of the recording fees so collected
shall be paid by it to the Secretary of State; one dollar and
fifty cents thereof shall be paid by it for recording such cer-
tificate of incorporation to the Clerk of the Circuit or Superior
Court to whom the same shall be transmitted for recording as
aforesaid; and for the balance it shall account quarterly to the
Comptroller and pay the same forthwith to the State Treas-
urer for the use of the State. '"

No. 2—"In Section 3, page 6 of the printed Bill, commenc-
ing with the words 'A duly, ' in line 12 of Section 5 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland, as re-enacted thereby, strike out
the balance of said section of Article 23 and insert in lieu
thereof the following: 'A duly certified copy of a certificate of