1894, ch. 295, sec. 143P. 221. Any person who shall act within this State as an officer, agent or otherwise in procuring new members for any association which shall have failed, neglected or refused to comply with, or shall have violated any of the provisions of Section 210 to Section 223 (both inclusive) of this Article, or shall have failed or neglected to comply with the provisions therein, preliminary to transacting business as provided for by said sections, or either of them, shall be subject to the penalty provided in the last preceding section for the misdemeanor therein specified. Ibid. sec. 143Q. 222. Fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or associations as described in Section 210 may be incorporated in the manner provided for the formation of corporations under this article; provided, that no such society, order or association incorprated in another State, Province or Territory, nor any council or branch, or component part thereof, can be incorporated under the laws of this State. Ibid. sec. 143R. 223. Any association entitled to do business in this State under the provisions of Section 210 to Section 223 (both inclusive) of this Article, which shall so conduct its affairs or shall in any manner change its charter, constitution or laws, so that it shall not answer to the description of a fraternal beneficiary association as set forth in Section 210, shall thereupon cease to be entitled to the privilege of said section. Ibid. sec. 2. 224. The Insurance Commissioner of this State shall notify the supreme secretary of each of the said associations now doing business in this State of Sections 210-223, and enclose a blank for the report of its operations for each year ending December 31; and every association receiving such notice and blank shall file such report in the manner provided in Section 213, not later than three months from the date of the receipt of such notice and blank, under the like penalties as provided in Section 220 for not filing a report. 1894, art. 295, sec. 3. 225. Nothing contained in Sections 210-223 shall apply to lodges or orders of a purely religious, charitable or benevolent description, paying exclusively sick, funeral or death benefits to members, their family or dependents, and not operated with a view to profit, nor shall any such organization be required to make any report under this or any other sections of the insurance laws; and provided further, that no society, lodge or body of any secret or fraternal society, or association of employes of any particular trade, firm or corporation organized in this State, paying only sick benefits not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in the aggregate to any one person in any one year, or a funeral benefit to those dependent on a member not exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars, shall be required to make any report thereof under this article or under any other article of the insurance laws; provided further, that certificates issued by the Improved and Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith may be made payable to charitable institutions as now provided in its by-laws. MINING COMPANIES. 1906, ch. 178. 227. No mining company, incorporated under this Article, shall hold more than one thousand (1000) acres of land at any one time, if said corporation is situated in Allegany county; nor more than five hundred (500) acres if in any other county; nor shall its capital stock exceed three million dollars ($3,000, 000); and the presence, in person or by proxy, of a majority in interest of the stockholders shall be necessary to form a quorum for business at any meeting of the stockholders or members. Ibid. sec. 145. 1860, art. 77, sec. 2. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 139. 228. The president and directors of any corporation mentioned in the preceding section shall be invested with full power to locate and construct a railroad or railroads, with necessary appurtenances, beginning the same at or near the mines, manufactories or works of the said corporation, and running to any convenient point or points that may best suit the convenience and interest of said corporation, and to use and control the said railroad or railroads, and the necessary vehicles and appurtenances thereto belonging. New York Mining Co. v. Midland Mining Co., 98 Md. Ibid. sec. 146. 1860, art. 77, sec. 3. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 140. 229. It shall not be lawful for any such corporation formed under this article to occupy any portion of the lands that may be necessary for the accommodation of the works of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, or the main route of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, or the works of any other railroad company chartered by this State, except to cross said roads without injury to the same. 1888, art. 23, sec. 147. 1860, art. 77, sec. 4. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 141. 230. The Legislature may at any time regulate, modify or change the control, use and estate of any railroad constructed by such corporation, in such manner as it may deem equitable toward the said corporation, and necessary to the accommodation of the public travel or use of the said railroad or railroads. Ibid. sec. 148. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 142. 231. No railroad constructed by such corporation shall pass through the limits of any incorporated city or town without the consent of the corporate authorities thereof; nor through any dwelling-house, warehouse, stable, yard, garden or orchard, without the written consent of the owners of the same. Ibid. sec. 149. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 143. 232. The president and directors of any such corporation, or a majority of them, or any person authorized by a majority of them, may agree with the owner or owners of any land, earth, timber, stone or other materials which may be wanted for the construction or repair of said railroad or railroads, for the purchase or for the use and occupation of the same, or may obtain such land, earth or stone by condemnation. Ibid. sec. 150. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 144. 233. The citizens of this State or any corporation now or hereafter to be incorporated under the authority of this article shall have the right to connect with the railroad or railroads hereby provided for, any other railroad, if, in the judgment of any three of the County Commissioners of the county for the time being, passed upon hearing of all parties interested, no injury will be done by such connection to the railroad of said corporation. Ibid. sec. 151. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 145. 234. Any corporation authorized by Section 227 and 228 of this Article to construct the railroad therein mentioned, may charge any citizen or corporation connecting with its said railroad, when using their own cars, a rate not exceeding two cents per ton per mile, on all coal or other articles that may be transported on the railroads of said corporation, from any point on said road to the Chesapeaks and Ohio canal, or to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, or other lines of canals and railroads; provided, that the said corporation shall return the empty cars of such citizen or corporation to the point from whence they started, free of charge. 1888, art. 23, sec. 152. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 149. 235. No cars shall be placed on any railroad of any such corporation as aforesaid, unless they be adapted in size and all necessary particulars to said railroad, in accordance with the regulations of the said corporation, which shall always provide the necessary motive power for running said cars; and the said cars shall be in the exclusive care and charge of said corporation whilst on its railroad. Ibid. sec. 153. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 147. 236. No railroad built by any mining or other corporation under the nine preceding sections of this article shall be more than ten miles in length. Ibid. sec. 154. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 148. 237. Every railroad constructed under the preceding provisions of this Article shall be furnished with all necessary means for the transportation of all persons and property that may be offered for transportation thereon; and in all cases other than that provided for in Section 234 of this Article or in all cases in which the said corporation furnishes the said cars and motive power, and is subject to all the expenses of transportation, it shall be authorized to charge rates not exceeding two and a half cents per ton per mile on all coal or other articles, and two cents per mile for every passenger that may be transported on said road. Ibid. sec. 155. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 146. 238. Any railroad that may hereafter be constructed or purchased by any such corporation formed under this article shall be so located or used as to occupy as little space at the passage through the gap at Will's Mountain, near Cumberland, as may be compatible with the full and convenient use of said railroad, and in such manner as to produce as little obstruction as may be to the location of other railroads through said gap by any corporation now authorized, or that may hereafter be authorized to construct the same under the authority of this article. Ibid. sec. 156. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 150. 239. All questions of difference that may arise between any two corporations incorporated under this article, or between any corporation and a citizen in regard to locating, constructing or working its railroad or railroads, or in respect to the charges of transportation thereon, may be submitted to and decided by the Board of Public Works; and the decision of the said Board shall be final in all cases submitted to them. Minors-Institutions and Societies for the Care and Protection of. 1906, ch. 78. 240. All bodies incorporated or to be incorporated under the general laws for the purpose of the care, custody, guardianship or protection of minors generally, or of any particular |