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upon any agent of such company or corporation, shall be
deemed sufficient service upon such company or Corporation ;
and if the company or corporation shall fail to appear at the first

term after such service as aforesaid, judgment shall on proof to
the satisfaction of the court of the agency aforesaid, be rendered
by default, against said company or corporation, for the amount
of the plaintiff's claim, to be proved to and ascertained by a
jury upon inquiry by it executed at bar as in cases of ascertain-
ment of damages by jury or judgments by default.

Judgment
by default.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That if any such company or
corporation, shall after any liability shall occur or shall have
occurred within this state, withdraw its agents from this state,
or shall revoke the authority of any agent and shall not appoint
another agent within this state, and no president or director of
said company or corporation can be found within this state,
upon whom to serve any writ or process, that service of any
writ or process issued as aforesaid, upon the person last the

Case of
revoking
agent, &c.

agent of such company or corporation, shall be deemed suffi-
cient service on such company or corporation, and if no appear-
ance be entered for such company at the term next succeeding
the issuing of such writ or process, judgment by default shall
be rendered against such company or corporation for the
amount of the plaintiff's claim, to be proved to and ascertained

Proceeding
authorized.

by a jury as aforesaid ; Provided always, that before such judg-
ment shall be rendered, in case the authority of any agent shall
be revoked as aforesaid, and the said writ or process, shall be
served on such agent, that evidence shall be furnished to the
court where such suit is pending, by affidavit or affirmation of
the party serving the same, made before the mayor of some
corporation or judge of some court of the United States, to be
attested by the seal of such corporation, or of the court of
which such person may be judge, that a copy of such writ or
process so served on such agent, has been delivered to the pre-
sident or two directors of such company or corporation within
the state where such company or corporation shall have been
incorporated.

Provided
service is
proved, &c.

CHAPTER 90.

AN ACT in relation to the Clerk of the Court of Appeals for the Western
Shore of Maryland.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland
That it shall and may be lawful for the clerk of the court oJ
appeals for the western shore of Maryland, to place all fees
which may be due him, now, or hereafter, from the citizens oi
this state, or incorporated institutions, in the hands of the she-
riffs of the several counties, for collection, at any time prior tc
the twentieth day of March, in each and every year, and that

Allowed till
the 29th
March to
furnish a
list of fees
to sheriffs.

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