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If court,
&c. are sa-
tisfied that
person
charged
with con-
fining, &c.
is about to
remove per-
son con-
fined, to
command
sheriff to
serve writ,
and cause
person im-
mediately
to be
brought be-
fore them.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whenever application, or complaint in writing, shall be
made to the county court, or to the chancellor, the chief judge,
or an associate judge, of any of the judicial districts of this state,
or to the chief judge, or an associate judge of Baltimore city
court, by or on behalf of any person in confinement or detained
within their respective jurisdiction, if it shall be made appear to
the satisfaction of the court, chancellor or judge, that there are
strong grounds or probable cause for believing that the person
who may be charged with confining or detaining the person
making the application or complaint, or on behalf of whom the
same is made, is about to remove the person so confined or
detained from the place where he may then be confined or
detained, for the purpose of evading any writ of 'habeas corpus,
or for any other purpose, or that the person charged as aforesaid
would evade or not obey any such writ if the same was notified
to or served on him in the usual manner such writs are exe-
cuted, then and in that case it shall and may be lawful for the
court, chancellor or judge, to issue the said writ of habeas
corpus, in the usual form, directed to the person charged as
aforesaid, and also to insert in such writ a clause commanding
and requiring the sheriff of the county in which the -person
charged as aforesaid may be, to notify to and serve the said
writ on the person to whom the same may be directed, and to
cause the said person immediately to be and appear before the
court, chancellor or judge, together with the person so confined
or detained, for the purpose of complying with the command
contained in the said writ, and it shall be the duty of the
sheriff, to whom the said writ may be delivered, immediately
upon the receipt thereof, to execute the same, and to carry the
person to whom the said writ may be directed, together with
the person so confined or detained, before the court, chancel-
lor or judge, as the case may be, who shall proceed to inquire
into the subject matter, and there shall be the same proceedings
had thereon as is directed by the act to which this is a supple-
ment, and by the act, entitled, an act declaratory of the law on
returns to writs of habeas corpus, and for the better protection
of the liberty of the citizens, passed at December session one
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the sheriff, to whom any
such writ of habeas corpus may be delivered, shall neglect or
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