nor permit any interment therein; nor shall any funeral or burial procession to or from any cemetery incorporated under the provisions of this article pass through any part of said Druid Hill Park without the permission in writing of the Park Commissioners; and any person or persons who shall cause any such funeral or burial procession, or any part thereof, to pass through any part of such park, or shall participate in any manner in any interment within the territory herein prescribed and prohibited as to such interments, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or to such fine and imprisonment for ten days in jail in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 107. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 81.

134. Every burial lot sold or conveyed in such cemetery shall be held by the proprietors thereof for the sole purpose of sepulture and for none other, and shall not in any manner be subject to attachment or execution for debt, or affected by the insolvent laws of this State; but the estate of the owner or owners in their respective lots shall descend as real estate to heirs, may be devised by will or may be disposed of by the owner by sale, with the approval of the president and managers of the corporation.

1888, art. 23, sec. 108. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 82.

135. A certificate under the seal of the corporation of the ownership of any lot sold or conveyed as aforesaid shall in all respects have the same effect as any conveyance from such corporation of said lot would have if executed, acknowledged and recorded, as conveyances of real estate are by the laws of this State required to be.

Ibid. sec. 109. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 83. 1884, ch. 22. 1898, ch. 178.

136. Any person or persons, his, her or their aiders or abettors, who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure placed in any cemetery, or any building, wall, fence, railing or other work, for the use, protection or ornament of any public

or private cemetery in this State, or shall wilfully destroy, cut, break or remove any tree, plant or shrub within its limits, or who shall shoot or discharge any fire-arms within said limits, or who shall be guilty of indecent or disorderly conduct within said limits shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction or before any justice of the peace of this State shall be punished by fine, not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail or the Maryland house of correction for not less than thirty days, nor more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of said justice or court, according to the gravity of the offence. Any justice of the peace in this State, except civil justices in the city of Baltimore, shall have jurisdiction under this section.

GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANIES.

1888, art. 23, sec. 110. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 93. 1876, ch. 349 142. Any gaslight corporation, formed under this Article, shall have full power to manufacture and sell, and to furnish such quantities of gas as may be required in any city, town or county of this State, in which, or adjoining which, the same may be located, for lighting the streets, roads, and public and private buildings, and for other purposes; and such corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to lay conductors or pipes, for the transmission of gas, in any city, town or county, under the streets, squares, lanes, alleys and roads thereof, paved or unpaved, and to connect the same with any manufactory, public or private building, lamp or other structure or object, and with the place of supply, subject, however, to any law or ordinance that may be passed by the municipal authorities of the city or town, or the County Commissioners having jurisdiction, for the filling up and repaving any street, square, lane, or alley or road, under which the said pipes may be laid.

1888, art. 23, sec. 111. 1890, ch. 588. 1894, ch. 308.

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143. Any electric light company formed under this article shall have full power to manufacture and sell and furnish such

quantities of electric light or electric power as may be required or desired in any city or town of Kent, Talbot, Somerset, Carroll, Montgomery or Washington counties of this State, in which or adjoining which the same may be located, for lighting the streets, roads, public or private buildings, or for motive power or other purposes; and such corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to lay, construct or build lines or conductors, under, along, upon or over the streets, squares, lanes, alleys and roads, paved or unpaved, and connect the same with any manufactory, public or private buildings, lamps or other structure or objects, and with the place of supply, subject, however, to any law or ordinance that may be passed by the municipal authorities of the city or town or the County Commissioners having jurisdiction, for the filling up or restoring such streets or roads to their normal condition; and provided further, in the construction, maintenance, removal and repair of all such lines and appliances in Washington county, the same shall be done under such regulations as the Mayor and City Council of Hagerstown, or the County Commissioners of said county, having jurisdiction, shall prescribe; but nothing in this article shall authorize the incorporation of electric light companies for the purpose of carrying on business or conducting operations in Baltimore city.

Electric Light Co. v. Frederick City, 84 Md. 607. Edison Co. v. Hooper, 85 Md. 112, 113. Mealey v. Hagerstown, 92 Md. 745.

1906, ch. 167.

143A. Whenever any two or more corporations of this State are engaged in furnishing to the public light by the same or different processes in the same town or city, and the holders of a majority of stock therein shall believe that such corporations can furnish a cheaper and better service by co-operation for that purpose, and shall authorize the exercise of the powers herein given, such corporations, in addition to the right to consolidate, as provided in Article 23, Section 45 of the Code of Public General Laws of this State, are hereby empowered to secure such joint operation by one of said corporations becoming the lessee of the property and franchises of the others or the owner of stock therein.

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Ibid. sec. 112. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 96.

144. The capital stock of any insurance company incorporated under this article shall not exceed the sum of two millions of dollars, and except in the case of mutual insurance companies shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars; and at least one-fifth of the whole capital stock shall be paid in before the said company shall be competent to transact the business for which it shall have been incorporated.

Fraternal Alliance v. State, 86 Md. 560.

1888, art. 23, sec. 113. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 97.

145. Any corporation incorporated under this article for insurance purposes, except for the insurance of the lives of persons, is hereby authorized to include in its certificate of incorporation as among the other objects and purposes for which said corporation is formed, the following, that is to say: to guarantee the payment, punctual performance, and collection of promissory notes, bills of exchange, contracts, bonds, accounts, claims, rents, annuities, mortgages, choses in action, evidences of debt, and certificates of property or value, and the titles to property, real or personal, on such terms as may be established by the board of directors of said company; to receive on storage, deposit or otherwise, merchandise, bullion, specie, plate, stock, bonds, promissory notes, certificates and evidences of debt, contracts or other property, and to take the management, custody and charge of real or personal estate or property, and to advance money, securities and credits upon any property, real, personal or mixed, on such terms and with all such powers of sale and other disposition thereof as shall be established by the charter or by-laws of such corporation; provided, that the corporate title of any company having among its other purposes those enumerated in this section, shall designate the same as a security, as well as an insurance company.

Fisher v. Parr, 92 Md. 275.

Ibid. sec. 114. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 98.

146. Corporations formed under the provisions of this article for insurance purposes, may be formed either as mutual or

stock companies, or as mutual and stock companies combined, as shall be determined and declared in the certificate of incorporation of said company.

1898, ch. 226. 1902, ch. 131, sec. 114A.

147. Any mutual or co-operative assessment life, accident or health insurance company heretofore incorporated, after having given notice once a week for six weeks of its intention to do so, and of the meeting hereinafter provided for, in two daily newspapers published in the county or city where such corporation is located, may, with the consent in writing of twothirds of the members of such corporation, and the consent of three-fourths of its directors, become a joint stock corporation, subject to the existing laws of this State applicable to such corporations. The policy holders of said company shall have the first right to subscribe to said stock, subject to such equitable regulations as the directors may prescribe; but all such subscriptions must be made in cash and at not less than par. The assets, if any, and the liabilities of the mutual company shall thereupon be and become the assets of the stock company, except so far as herein otherwise provided; but it is hereby made the duty of the Insurance Commissioner, upon request and payment for said work at the usual rates, to ascertain the interest in said assets of all the members of the mutual company who have not given their consent as aforesaid to the change of said company into a stock company, and this interest so ascertained shall be paid over to such non-assenting members, and upon payment or tender to them of said interest so ascertained their membership shall cease and be determined, and the balance of such assets, less the provision made above for the protection of outstanding mutual policy holders, may be deposited with the Treasurer or the Insurance Commissioner of Maryland, as guarantee capital for the payment of the policies of insurance issued by said company, as required by Section 149 and Section 176 of this Article; and the mutual policies, and all the rights and liabilities attached thereto, and all the powers and obligations of the company with reference to the same, shall survive so long as said policies shall remain in force, except that such policies shall be thereafter considered