be carried on in any county outside of an incorporated town or Dissolution of Corporations. 1894, ch. 263. 264. Whenever any corporation in this State shall have been determined by legal proceedings to be insolvent, or shall be proven to be insolvent by proof offered under any bill filed under the provisions of this section, it shall be deemed to have surrendered its corporate rights, privileges and franchises, and may be adjudged to be dissolved after the hearing, according to the practice of courts of equity in this State, upon a bill filed for that purpose in the Circuit Court of Baltimore city or in the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City, if the principal office of the corporation is located therein, or in the circuit court for any county, if the principal office or place of business of said corporation be therein located, or if the certificate of its incorporation be recorded therein; and such bill may be filed by any stockholder, shareholder or creditor of said corporation, or by the Attorney-General of the State of Maryland, or by the State's attorney of the city or county in which the principal office of said corporation is located. But this section shall not apply to any railroad company chartered by this State. Davis v. Gemmell, 73 Md. 535. Mason v. Supreme Court Equitable 1896, ch. 349. 264 A. Whenever any corporation mentioned in section 264 of 19 02 this article other than railroad companies chartered by this State, Ch. 198. shall have been determined or proven to be insolvent, as in said section 264 stated, all payments, conveyances and assignments of the money, property, debts or claims of said corporation and all preferences, howsoever made by it or by any of its officers on its behalf which would be void or fraudulent if the same had been made by a natural person who had become an insolvent under article 47 of the Code of Public General Laws, shall, to the like extent and with like remedies, be fraudulent and void when made by such corporation or any of its officers on its behalf, and whenever any such corporation shall have been adjudged to be dissolved as provided in the next preceding section of this article, all of its property and assets of every description shall be distributed to the creditors of said corporation in the same manner that the property and assets of an insolvent debtor are distributed under the provisions of article 47 of the Code of Public General Laws, but no discharge shall be granted to the said corporation, and the receiver of such corporation shall have the same power and authority to maintain suits and proceedings, to set aside preferences and void or fraudulent transfers and payments, conveyances and assignments by said corporation or by any of its officers on its behalf in the same manner and to the same extent as the permanent trustee of an insolvent debtor has, under article 47 of the Code of Public General Laws, in reference to preferences and void or fraudulent transfers, payments, conveyances and assignments, when made by a natural person who has become an insolvent debtor, and the date of the filing of the bill against such corporation, upon which it may be dissolved, shall be taken and treated for the purpose of determining the validity of preferences and for all other purposes as the date of the filing of the petition in insolvency by or against a natural person. 1892, ch. 399. 276 A. No corporation, made taxable by any law of this State, shall hereafter be dissolved under the decree of any court of this State until all taxes due the State have been fully paid or adjusted and the certificate of the Comptroller of the Treasury to this effect filed in the proper court with the proceedings of dissolution. Process. 1892, ch. 601. 296. Process issued by any court or justice of the peace of this State against any corporation incorporated under its laws may be served on any president, director, manager, ticket agent or person selling tickets for passengers of any railroad company or other officer of such corporation, and if neither the president nor any of the directors, managers, ticket agents or other officers of such corporation reside in this State such process may be served anywhere within this State on any agent, attorney or other person in the service of such corporation, provided that in every case the officer serving process shall leave a copy of such process with the person upon whom the same is served. And whenever any trust or guarantee company which shall be authorized and empowered under the laws of this State to insure the fidelity of persons holding places of trust or responsibility in, to or under any State, county, city corporation, company, person or persons whatsoever, or to become security for the faithful performance of any trust, office, duty, contract or agreement, and to supersede any judgments, or to go upon any appeal or other bond, then any such trust or guarantee company shall be liable to be sued in any of the counties of this State or in the city of Baltimore wherever any such bond shall be given or liability incurred by such trust or guarantee company, and process shall be served upon any such trust or guarantee company, as is hereinbefore provided for by this section, and such process shall be issued to the sheriff of any county or the city of Baltimore, and shall be made returnable to the clerk of the court of the county or city of Baltimore from which same issued; and with the exceptions' herein provided for as to trust and guarantee companies, all suits which shall hereafter be brought against any corporation which has been or may be incorporated under the general incorporation laws of this State, shall be brought in the counties or city of Baltimore, as the case may be, in which the certificate of incorporation is required to be and has been recorded. Fairfax, &c., Co. v. Chambers, 75 Md., 614. 1892, ch. 279. 304. No corporation, which under the laws of this State, shall act as trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, committee or receiver, or in any one or more of those capacities without bond or security other than its own obligation, in any case in which bond would be required from a natural person in the like or similar capacity, shall incur the liability of a surety upon any bond of any sort or description, and all acts and parts of acts whether general or special inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. ARTICLE XXV. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Draining Lands. Schools. 49. Collection of taxes for draining 120. County Commissioners are au thorized to receive and control lands. Public Landings. 118. Establishment of public landings. money given in trust by will or deed for purposes of education. 121. State's attorneys are charged with the duty of seeing to the proper execution of such trusts. Draining Lands. 49. The said commissioners shall deliver to the treasurer a statement of the taxes levied for making said ditches with the sums which each person is bound to pay; and such tax or assessment made and returned to and confirmed by the county commissioners shall remain in full force for the term of ten years from such confirmation and shall be the proportion or basis upon which other and further taxes may be levied by the managers for all necessary purposes for cutting and making or for cleansing and repairing such ditches. Public Landings. 1890, ch. 438. 118. In all cases where the public convenience requires it, the county commissioners shall have power to establish a public landing upon any navigable river, canal, bay, sound or other navigable waters. Schools. 1894, ch. 41. 120. The County Commissioners of each county in this State, in their capacity of corporations, are invested with full power to receive in trust and to hold and control, for the purposes of such trusts, all money or other property of whatsoever description which may hereafter be bestowed upon such corporations by will, deed, or in any other form of gift or conveyance, in trust, for purposes of education, and to provide by resolution or otherwise for the execution of said trusts in the mode prescribed by the will, deed or other instrument creating the same. 1894, ch. 41. 121. The State's attorneys of the several counties are charged with the duty of seeing that such trusts are carried into effect in their respective counties; and in case of any neglect on the part of the County Commissioners, it shall be the duty of the State's attorney in the county in which such neglect occurs to cause proper proceedings to be instituted in the Circuit Court for said county to compel the execution of the said trust. ARTICLE XXVI. General Provisions. COURTS. Court of Appeals. 4. What shall constitute contempt of 30. Disqualification of judges from 4. The power of the several courts of the State to issue attachments and inflict summary punishments for contempt of courts, shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the following: (1.) The misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of the said courts, or so near thereto as to obstruct the |