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Ibid. sec. 2.

91B. In any instance aforesaid, any relative of the testator, or of the grantor or donor, if such grantor or donor be deceased in the name of such relative or the grantor or donor, if living in his own name, or the State's Attorney for the county or city in which one of the courts of equity aforesaid has jurisdiction, as aforesaid, in the name of the State of Maryland, may file and prosecute a bill or bills in equity to procure the passage of such decree or decrees, order or orders, as may be necessary or appropriate to the enforcement or compliance with said condition, conditions or terms, and that it shall be the duty of the State's Attorney aforesaid, after notice to him of disregard or noncompliance of such corporation, conditions or terms, to proceed as aforesaid, unless said grantor or donor be living, or unless a relative of said testator or of a deceased grantor or donor shall file and bona fide prosecute such bill or bills, and that the costs and expenses of such proceedings shall be borne by said corporation.

Ibid. sec. 3.

91c. Nothing contained in this Act is intended as, or shall be taken to be, an interpretation of existing law.

1888, art. 16, sec. 109. 1860, art. 16, sec. 93. 1853, ch. 38.

121. In a suit against a corporation, whether foreign or domestic, if neither the president nor any of the directors, officers or agents upon whom process may be served reside in this State, such corporation may be proceeded against as a nonresident defendant, by notice by publication.

1900, ch. 73.

201. It shall not be necessary for the answer or any other pleading of a corporation to be under corporate seal.

ARTICLE XIX.

SUPERVISION OF EXPENDITURES OF CORPORATIONS RECEIVING APPROPRIATIONS

FROM THE STATE.

1900, ch. 239, secs. 1 and 2.

41. All associations or incorporated institutions maintained for industrial, educational, medical, humane, military or charitable purposes, securing any appropriation from the State treasury under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, shall on or before the first day of February after said appropriation or any part thereof shall have been received, and annually thereafter, as long as said association or incorporation shall continue a beneficiary of the State, file with the comptroller a full and accurate account, giving, as far as the said comptroller may consider practicable, an itemized statement of how the said amount so received from the State has been expended; said account to be sworn to by the president, vice-president or treasurer of said association or institution or commanding officer of such military organization. All appropriations made by the Legislature to any of such associations or institutions, if not so provided in the Act making such appropriation, shall be payable one-half in the first fiscal year wherein said appropriation is made and one-half in the next fiscal year, and the comptroller is hereby instructed not to draw his warrant for any payment until such an account of the expenditures, to the full satisfaction of the said comptroller, shall have been filed; provided, the said institution shall have received an appropriation prior to the enactment of this section; and the comptroller is hereby authorized, in his discretion, for the purpose of informing himself of the expenditures of said institutions, to cause an examination of their financial affairs and management to be made.

Ibid. sec. 3.

42. No part of any appropriation made by the State to any institution or association, the character of which is set forth in

the preceding section, shall be applied to the purchase of any land or erection of any building, unless permission to purchase such land or erect such building be directly given in the Act making such appropriation.

ARTICLE XXI.

CONVEYANCES IN GENERAL.

1888, art. 21, sec. 1. 1860, art. 24, sec. 1. 1766, ch. 14, sec. 2.
1856, ch. 154, secs. 81, 82. 1890, ch. 210.

1. No estate of inheritance or freehold, or any declaration or limitation of use, or any estate above seven years, shall pass or take effect unless the deed conveying the same shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded as herein provided; and all such deeds shall be acknowledged before some one of the officers named in sections two, three, four and five of this Article, and any unmarried woman between the age of eighteen years and twenty-one years, shall have power to make a deed of trust of her property, real, personal or mixed; provided, the same shall be approved and sanctioned by a court having equity jurisdiction in the city or county where the grantor resides, upon the petition of the said grantor, and such proof as the said court in its discretion may require.

1888, art. 21, sec. 2. 1860, art. 24, sec. 2. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 83. 1890, ch. 232.

2. If acknowledged in the county or city within which the real estate or any part of it lies, the acknowledgment may be made before:

1st. A justice of the peace for such city or county.

2d. A judge of the orphans' court of such county or city.

3d. A judge of the circuit court for the county.

4th. A judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city.
5th. A notary public.

1888, art. 21, sec. 3. 1860, art. 24, sec. 3. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 84. 1890, ch. 232. 1892, ch. 4.

3. If acknowledged within the State, but out of the county or city wherein the real estate or any part of it lies, the acknowledgment may be made before:

1st. A notary public.

2d. Any judge of the circuit court for the circuit in which grantor may be, or any judge of the orphans' court of the county in which the grantor may be.

3d. Any judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city or any judge of the orphans' court of said city.

4th. Any justice of the peace for the county or city where the grantor may be at the time of the acknowledgment the official character of the justice being certified to by the clerk of the Circuit or Superior Court under his official seal.

Grove v. Todd, 41 Md. 633. Dyson v. Simmons, 48 Md. 213. Sitler v. McComas, 66 Md. 137.

Ibid. sec. 4.

1860, art. 24, sec. 4. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 85.

4. If acknowledged without this State, but within the United States, the acknowledgment may be made before:

1st. A notary public.

2d. A judge of any court of the United States.

3d. A judge of any court of any State or territory having a seal.

4th. A commissioner of this State to take acknowledgments of deeds.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1860, art. 24, sec. 5. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 86. 1882, ch. 63. 5. If acknowledged without the United States the acknowledgment may be made before:

1st. Any minister, consul general, consul, deputy consul, vice consul, consular agent or consular officer of the United States.

2d. Any notary public.

3d. A commissioner of this State to take acknowledgments of deeds.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 24, sec. 6. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 87.

6. Every officer before whom any acknowledgment shall be made shall give a certificate thereof and endorse on or annex to the deed such certificate, and the certificate shall be recorded with the deed.

Lewis' Lessee v. Waters, 3 H. & McH. 432. Beall v. Lynn, 6 H. & J. 355. Sitler v. McComas, 66 Md. 139.

1888, art. 21, sec. 7. 1860, art. 24, sec. 7. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 88.

7. To every certificate of acknowledgment, taken without this State, before the judge of any court having a seal, the seal of such court shall be affixed.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1860, art. 24, sec. 8. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 89. 8. The certificate of acknowledgment shall contain:

1st. The name of the person making the acknowledgment. 2d. The official style of the officer taking the acknowledgment.

3d. The time when it was taken.

4th. A statement that the grantor acknowledged the deed to be his act, or made an acknowledgment to the like effect. Kelly . Rosenstock, 45 Md. 389. Frostburg Mut. Bldg. Ass'n v. Brace, 51 Md. 510.

1888, art. 21, sec. 84. 1882, ch. 215, secs. 1, 2.

87. In all cases where any railroad equipment and rolling stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the operation of any railroad, shall be sold to any person, firm or corporation, to be paid for in whole or in parts by instalments, or shall be leased, rented, hired or delivered on condition that the same shall be used by the person, firm or corporation purchasing, leasing, renting, hiring or receiving the same, the title to the same to remain in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer of the same until the agreed-upon price of such property shall have been paid, such condition in regard to the title so remaining in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer, notwithstanding delivery to and possession by the other party, until such payments are fully made, shall be valid for all in

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