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within the state or county where the offender may reside in
cases of a similar nature, such court or magistrate shall order
execution to issue upon such authenticated judgment, in the
same manner and to the same extent, as if the judgment had
been given by the court or magistrate to which such transcript
shall be exhibited. Eleventh, Any vessel entering in any port
on the river Patowmack, may be libelled or attached for debt by
process from the state in which such vessel entered ; and if the
commercial regulations of either state shall be violated by any
person carrying on commerce in Patowmack or Pocomoke rivers,
the vessel owned or commanded by the person so offending,
and the property on board, may be seized by process from the
state whose laws are offended, in order for trial ; and if any
person shall fly from justice in a civil or criminal case, or shall
attempt to defraud creditors, by removing his property, such
person, or any property so removed, may be taken on any part
of Chesapeake bay, or the rivers aforesaid, by process of the
state from which such person shall fly, or property be removed ;
and process from the state of Virginia may be served on any
part of the said rivers upon any person, or property of any
person, not a citizen of Maryland, indebted to any citizen of
Virginia, or charged with injury having been by him commit-
ted ; and process from the state of Maryland may be served on
any part of the said rivers upon any person, or property of any
person, not a citizen of Virginia, indebted to a citizen of Mary-
land, or charged with injury having been by him committed.
And in all cases of trial in pursuance of the jurisdiction settled
by this compact, citizens of either state shall attend as wit-
nesses in the other, upon a summons from any court or magis-
trate having jurisdiction, being served by a proper officer of the
county where such citizen shall reside. Twelfth, The citizens
of either state having lands in the other, shall have full liberty
to transport to their own state the produce of such lands, or to
remove their effects, free from any duty, tax or charge what-
soever, for the liberty to remove such produce or effects. Thir-
teenth, These articles shall be laid before the legislatures of
Virginia and Maryland, and their approbation being obtained,
shall be confirmed and ratified by a law of each state, never to
be repealed or altered by either without the consent of the
other : And whereas this general assembly are of opinion, that
the said compact is made on just and mutual principles, for the
true interest of both governments, and if executed with good
faith, will perpetuate harmony, friendship and good offices, be-
tween the two states, so essential to the prosperity and happi-
ness of their people ;
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