2422 ARTICLE 75.

An. Code, sec. 159. 1904, sec. 153. 1888, sec. 141. 1777, ch. 12, secs. 1, 2.

169. A summons for witnesses residing in a different county to testify
in trials to be had before the circuit court may issue, and shall be directed
to the sheriff of the county where the witnesses reside; and all witnesses
upon whom such summons shall be served shall be liable to attachment
and fine in like manner as if such witnesses resided in the county where
the trial is had.

Cited but not construed in Montel v. Consolidation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.

An. Code, sec. 160. 1904, sec. 154. 1888, sec. 142. 1795, ch. 23.

170. 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 witness 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.

Cited but not construed in Montel v. Consolidation Coal Co., 39 Md. 170.

An. Code, sec. 161. 1904, sec. 155. 1888, sec. 143. 1817, ch. 139, sec. 1.

171. When any of the clerks of any of the courts within this State
shall be required to issue any writ or process whatever, to be served in
any other county than that in which he is clerk, he shall issue the same
directed to the sheriff, coroner or other proper officer of such other county
to whom the same ought to be directed, and shall immediately enclose such
process in a letter or cover, sealed up and addressed to the clerk of the
circuit court for such other county, or the clerk of the superior court of
Baltimore city, and on the back thereof shall endorse his name as clerk
of the court from which it issues, and shall forthwith deposit the same in
the next postoffice, to be conveyed by the ensuing mail to the postoffice at
or nearest to which the clerk of such other court shall reside; and in such
letter or cover shall be written the usual docket entry of such process, so
as to show the parties concerned, and the nature and purpose thereof.

Cited but not construed in Deale v. Estep, 3 Bl. 439.

See sec. 181.

See art. 87, sec. 17, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 162. 1904, sec. 156. 1888, sec. 144. 1817, ch. 139, sec. 2.

172: Each clerk of the circuit courts for the several counties and the
clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city shall send to the postoffice
nearest his residence daily (if mails arrive at said office daily, and if not,
as often as they arrive) and inquire for letters and covers addressed to him,
and if he receive any writ or process, he shall immediately endorse the time
when he receives the same, and with all convenient speed deliver the same
to the sheriff or other officer to whom the same may be directed, and shall
also endorse thereon the time of such delivery.

An. Code, sec. 163. 1904, sec. 157. 1888, sec. 145. 1817, ch. 139, sec. 3.

173. Every clerk who shall receive and deliver any writ or process as
directed in the preceding section shall transmit by the mail, and in due