CITY COURT.

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escaped and come into Baltimore county, and have been taken

maybe

up as vagrants ; Be it enacted, That any two or more of the

adjudged to
labour, &o.

said justices may adjudge any person, condemned in any of the

United States to labour, as a punishment for any crime, to serve

and labour as a criminal, according to this act, for any term not

exceeding the residue of the term for which such person shall

have been condemned, and which condemnation shall appear to

the said justices by the record of conviction; but if such person

shall be demanded by the state from whence he escaped, he

shall be immediately delivered agreeably to such demand.

This section was repealed by 1799, ch. 58; 1800, ch. 31, and re-enacted

by 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7, ante page 580.

SEC. 26, 27. Merged in 1816, ch. 193, sec. 12 and 19.

SEC. 28, 29. Merged in 1809, ch. 138, ante page 572.

SEC, 30. And be it enacted, Where any witness may be or

Subpcena

reside in any other county in this state, the said justices, or any

may issue
for wit-

county court, shall have full power to issue subpoena for such

nesses, &c.

witness, directed to the sheriff of the county where such wit-

ness shall reside, and such sheriff shall serve and return the

same ; and if any person, so summoned, shall neglect to attend,

attachment may issue against him, directed as aforesaid, and by

virtue thereof, the sheriff shall be obliged to have the body of

such witness before the court issuing such attachment ; and in

case of neglect or delay, by such sheriff, to serve and return

such subpoena or attachment, and to have the body of such wit-

ness, such sheriff may be fined by the court issuing such pro-

cess ; and every process and subpcena issued from one county

to another shall be forwarded by the sheriff of the county issu-

ing the same, and he shall be allowed by the justices of his

county a reasonable compensation for his trouble.

See 1816, ch. 193, sec. 11, and process act, 1817, ch. 139.

SEC. 31. And be it enacted, If any person shall commit any

Court may

crime or offence in any county of which he is not an inhabi-

issue pro-
cess, &c.

tant, or if any person shall commit any crime or offence in the

county of which he is an inhabitant, and shall remove after the

commission of such crime or offence, and shall be presented or

indicted in the county where the crime or offence shall have

been committed, the court before whom such presentment or

indictment shall be found, shall have power to issue process

against such person, directed to the sheriff of the county where

such person shall reside, and such sheriff shall serve and return

such process in the same manner as if issued by the county

court of his county ; and in case of neglect or delay in such

sheriff to execute and return such process, he may be fined by

the court issuing such process.

SEC. 32, 33, 34. Gave power over 'Night Watch' and Dogs, to the

court, which was transferred to the corporation.