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manner as if such witnesses resided in the county where the
trial is had.

98. If a witness residing in a different county from that in
which the trial is to be had shall be summoned, or has removed
from such county after being summoned, and shall fail to appear
after being so summoned, an attachment may issue for such wit-
ness to the sheriff of the county where said witness resides,
returnable to the court issuing the same, and if the sheriff take
such witness, he shall produce him before the said court to abide
its sentence thereupon.

99. Process issued by any court of this State, against a corpo-
ration holding and exercising franchises within this State, may
be served upon the president, or any director or manager or
other officer of such corporation.

100. If a suit shall be instituted against any corporation not
chartered by this State, but deemed to hold and exercise fran-
chises therein, in the county or city where the office of such
corporation is kept, the process in such suit may be served on
the president or any director, or upon any agent of such corpo-
ration.

101. But in a suit against such corporation in any other county
or city than that in which its office is located, the plaintiff in
such suit shall have the writ or summons, or a copy thereof,
served on the clerk of the corporation, or in case of his absence,
left at the office of such corporation, at least fifteen days before
the return day of such writ or summons, and shall file the affi-
davit of some disinterested person that the same had been duly
served or left at the office aforesaid.

102. If any of the corporations embraced in the last two sec-
tions shall, after any liability shall occur within this State, with-
draw its agents from this State, or shall revoke the authority of
any agent, and shall not appoint another, and no president or
director of such corporation can be found in this State, service
of any writ or process on the person last the agent of such cor-
poration shall be deemed sufficient service, if a copy of such pro-
cess be served on the president or two directors of such corpora-
tion in the State where the same was incorporated, and an
affidavit of such service be made before any person authorized
by the laws of this State to take the acknowledgment of deeds.