682 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23
1906, ch. 472%.
336. On and after April 15, 1906, no common carrier shall charge
for performing the acts of receiving, hauling, icing, or delivery between
any two stations, wharves or other regular stopping places on its line
or branch line, for a distance not exceeding thirty (30) miles, a total
rate greater than two (2) cents per gallon for milk or cream, or one
and one-half (1 1/2) cents per gallon for buttermilk or skim-milk, or two
and one-half (2 1/2) cents per gallon for milk or cream, and two (2)
cents per gallon for buttermilk or skim-milk, for a distance not exceed-
ing fifty (50) miles.
As to tariff schedules, see sec. 427; as to the determination of when
rates are just and reasonable, see sec. 435; an to freight rates on inter-
state traffic, see sec. 441. See also, sec. 275.
1906, ch. 472 1/2.
337. On and after April 15, 1906, no common carrier shall refuse
to receive at any station, wharf or stopping place, a quantity of milk,
cream, buttermilk or skim-milk in a unit of two (2) gallons, three (3)
gallons, five (5) gallons, seven (7) gallons, or ten (10) gallons, or
groups of these units.
1906, ch. 472%.
338. Any breach of sections 336 and 337 shall be deemed a misde-
meanor and the common carrier shall be fined fifty (50) dollars for the
first offense and one hundred (100) dollars for each succeeding offense.
Religious Corporations.
1904, art. 23, sec. 301. 1888, art. 23, sec. 205. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 156.
339. In every church, religious society or congregation, of what-
ever sect, order or denomination, or which shall at any time hereafter
be known and acknowledged in the State, and protected in the free and
full exercise of its religion by the constitution and the laws thereof,
there shall be sufficient power and authority in all persons above twenty-
one years of age belonging to any such church, society or congregation,
to elect, at their discretion, certain, sober and discreet persons, not less
than four, nor more than twelve, which persons so elected, upon being-
registered, as hereinafter directed, Shall be constituted a body politic
or corporate to act as trustees in the name and behalf of the particular
church, society or congregation for which they are respectively chosen,
and to manage the estate, property, interest and inheritance of the same.
Suits.
A corporation formed under the act of 1802, ch. 111, can only be sued in
its corporate name; and a suit against the trustees Individually designating
them as trustees of the corporation, and omitting part of the corporate
name, is not a suit against the corporate body. Tartar v. Gibbs, 24 Md. 335.
Under the act of 1802, ch. 111, sut might be brought by a minority of the
trustees (constituting a quorum for the transaction of business), in their
corporate capacity against a majority of the trustees individually. African
Methodist, etc., Church v. Carmack, 2 Md. Ch. 143.
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