46 ATTACHMENTS. [ART. 10.

in this State; or before any judge of a court of record of the
United States, or of any State, District or Territory of the
United States, or before a commissioner appointed by this State
to take acknowledgments of deeds.

6. If the affidavit is made in this State, and before a justice of
the peace or judge in any other county than that in which the
attachment is to be issued, there shall also be a certificate under
the seal of the court from the clerk of the Circuit Court of the
county in which it is made, that the justice of the peace or judge
before whom the said affidavit was made, was at the time the
same was made a justice of the peace or judge, or the same may
be certified by the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city,
when the affidavit is made in that city; or if the affidavit be
made out of the State, and before a judge of a court of record,
there shall be a certificate from the clerk of said court, under
the seal thereof, that at the time the same was made he was a
judge of said court, and that the same is a court of record; or if
made before a commissioner of this State, the same shall be cer-
tified under his official seal.

7. The affidavit required by the preceding sections may be
made by the creditor, or one of them; where there are more
than one, by the president, cashier, or other officer of a corpora-
tion; by an executor or administrator; or where the attach-
ment is to be issued in the name or in behalf of an infant, by the
guardian of such infant, or by the infant himself; or by the hus-
band of a feme covert, or the committee of a lunatic.

8. Upon the affidavit being made, and the proofs produced
oefore a justice of the peace or judge of the county or city where
the attachment is to be issued, he shall forthwith issue his
warrant to the clerk of the Circuit Court or the Superior Court
of Baltimore city, or Court of Common Pleas, as the case may
require, to issue an attachment against the lands, tenements,
goods, chattels and credits of the said debtor, and upon the
receipt of said warrant, with the proofs on which the same was
granted, and not otherwise, the clerk shall issue such attach-
ment.

9. If the affidavit was made before any person authorized to
take the same other than a judge or justice of the county or
city where the attachment is to be issued, then upon producing
the same, certified, with the proofs as heretofore required, before