538 PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS. [ART. 75.

county where such property may lie, or cannot be found in much
county, such trespasser may be sued in any county where he may
be found, and an executor may be sued either in the county
where he resides or where he obtained administration.

89*. Any captain, master or owner of any steam boat or other
vessel may be sued for the non-delivery or injury of any goods
or chattels, in the county where the goods or chattels are re-
ceived on board of his vessel, or in the city or county in which
the delivery was by the contract to be made, in the same
manner as he can now bo sued in the county in which he re-
sides.

90. Every county lying on any navigable river in this State,
shall extend its jurisdiction from the shore to the channel of the
river that divides the counties, except where a dividing line has
been fixed in such river by law; and where any ship or other
vessel shall be in said river, process may be served on board the
said ship or vessel by the officers of either county that can first
serve it; but if she is moored or fastened to the land on either
side of said river, then she shall be considered as in the county
to whose shore she is fastened.

91. If any person shall commit any crime or offence in any
county of which he is not an inhabitant, 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 thereof and
shall be presented or indicted in the county where the crime or
offence shall have been committed, the court before which such
presentment or indictment shall be found, may issue process
against such person directed to the sheriff of the county where
such person may reside, and the sheriff shall serve and return
such process as if issued by a court of his county, and upon
neglect or delay, may be fined by the court issuing the same.

92. Where a testator devises lands and dies in debt, any of
his creditors may sue his devisees without making his heirs at
law parties, unless such heirs are known to the plaintiff and
reside in this State.

93. It shall not be necessary for any officer, in serving any
writ of scire facias, or attachment with clause of scire facias, to
serve the same in the presence of witnesses.