546

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Specified place
and time for
meeting.

designated therefor, and it shall name a day and date for the
meeting, not less than twenty days after the date of the war-
rant, or it may appoint a more distant day and date, if the
parties or persons owning or interested in the property reside
out of said county or out of this State. If on the day appointed
for such meeting it shall seem just and right to the sheriff,
he may postpone the meeting to a future day and date, not
more than twenty days thereafter, but by consent of the
Commissioners and the owners and the persons interested in
the lands or property, the sheriff may postpone the meeting
to any day and date agreed on. The sheriff may adjourn the
inquisition from day to day (Sundays excepted) until its work
is completed, or it may adjourn to any day agreed upon by
the parties.

Shall issue
summons for
persons
interested.

Third. With the warrant, or about the date thereof, the
Town Clerk shall issue and deliver to said sheriff summonses
directed to the owners or persons interested in said property,
residing in said county or in any other county of this State.
The summons for parties or persons residing in Dorchester
County shall be served by the said sheriff, while the sum-
monses for parties or persons residing in other counties of this
State shall be sent by said sheriff to the sheriff of such coun-
ties, that he may summon the parties or persons named therein.
If any of the parties or persons interested in the property shall
reside out of this State the Town Clerk shall deliver to the-
sheriff of Dorchester County an order of publication, to be
published once a week for three successive weeks in some
newspaper in said town, at least thirty days before the day
and date of the meeting named in the warrant or afterwards
appointed.

How summons
shall be
served on
non-residents.

But in place of an order of publication a summons may be
personally served on any non-resident by any person appointed
by the sheriff, if the person who serves the same makes oath
to such service before a notary public or the clerk of any
court of record, and the notary or clerk appends a certificate
thereto, authenticated by the seal of the notary or of the
clerk's court. If it be unknown or uncertain where any
party or person interested in the property resides, or whether
such party or person be dead or alive, or whether, if dead, he
or she left children or heirs, notice to all such may be given
by au order of publication. All persons interested in said
property shall be bound, after the day and date first appointed
for meeting, to ascertain the time and place of all subsequent
meetings, without any special notice whatever, and they shall
be bound to attend or be held to assent to any proceedings
taken and had in the premises.