Some of our members have recently received communications from the Secretary of State of Maryland calling their attention to a law which went into effect in Maryland June 1st, 1908, regarding filing certificates permitting foreign corporations to transact business. The Secretary of State’s letter reads in part as follows:

“The name of your company appears on the records of this office as a Foreign Corporation doing business in Maryland. As the recently enacted Act of the Legislature repeals the law under which you are authorized to transact business in this State, it will be necessary for you to comply with the provisions of the new law, a copy of which I enclose herewith, together with a blank form, convenient for use in connection therewith.”

Our attorney at Baltimore writes as follows regarding the necessity of complying with the provisions of the law above referred to:

“It is not necessary for a foreign corporation who maintains no office or agency, or has no assets in this State, to file a certified copy of its charter, the required certificate under the act and the franchise tax. A foreign corporation under the facts above stated may send any number of salesmen for the purpose of making sales in this jurisdiction without having to comply with the foreign corporation law.”

Opinion No. 55.