140 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1777.
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issue summons for witnesses residing in a different county, to
testify in trials to be had before such court, which summons
shall be directed to the sheriff or coroner (as the case may
require,) of the county where the witnesses reside, and re-
turned to the court before which the trial is to be had. |
Witnesses
may be
attached. |
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all witnesses, as aforesaid
summoned, shall, in case of non-attendance, be liable to attach-
ment and fine, in like manner as if such witnesses resided in
the county where such trial is had.
By 1795, ch. 23, the sheriff to whom such attachment shall be directed,
(on the non-attendance of any wilness,) shall make return thereof lo the
court by which it shall be issued, and produce the party before the said
court to abide their sentence.
See process act, 1835, ch. 149. |
Executions
may issue,
&c. |
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for the clerks of the several county courts, and they are hereby
authorized and required, on application of the plaintiff, in any
judgment of their courts respectively, to issue executions against
any defendant who hath removed, or shall remove, from the
county in which such judgment is or shall be had, to another
county; which execution shall be directed to, and served by,
the sheriff or coroner (as the case may require,) of the county
where such defendant may reside, and returned to the court of
the county of which he is sheriff or coroner; and it shall be
sufficient for the plaintiff, to entitle himself to the benefit of
such execution, to produce before the court to which the same
shall be returnable, a short copy of the judgment by him had,
attested by the clerk of the court before which the same is had.
By 1795, ch. 23, the execution may be recovered, in virtue of such short
copy from the court to which it was returned, as if the judgment had been
rendered therein, and the same proceedings may be had thereon.
Sec 1801, ch. 74.
CHAPTER 16.
AH ACT relating to the Qualification of Jurors.
Repealed by 1812, ch. 178.
CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT for the better security of the Government.
This act imposed a treble tax and other disabilities on non-jurors, that is
on those who refused to lake the oath of fidelity to the state during the revo-
lutionary war, and is now obsolete save the twenty-ninth section. |
No person
to be tried,
&c. |
SEC. 29. And be it enacted, That no person shall be tried for
any treason or misprision of treason against this state, unless the
indictment be found within three years after the offence com-
mitted , and it is declared, that no person shall be convicted by
a petit jury of either of the said crimes, unless by the oath of
two lawful witnesses to prove each separate and distinct fact
charged in the indictment as treason or misprision of treason, |
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