40 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

COURTS.
SUPERIOR COURT AND COURT OP COMMON PLEAS.

Chapter 6 adds the following:

6. In addition to the first day of each term of the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, and of the Court of Common Pleas in
Baltimore city, the second Monday in February, March, April,
June, July, October, November and December, in each year,
shall be return days.

7. Any person instituting an action in either of said courts,
may, at his election, have his original writ made returnable to
the next succeeding return day, or, to the first day of the next
succeeding term.

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8. On the return of any original writ not executed in either
of said courts, the same may be renewed, returnable to the next
return day thereafter, or to the next term of the said court from
which said original writ was issued.

9. After the execution of any original writ made returnable
to a return day in either of the said courts, the same proceed-
ings may be had in the prosecution of the said writ as would be
proper in case the said writ had been made returnable, and had
been returned to a term of the court from which the same was
issued.

10. If a defendant regularly returned summoned to appear at
a stated term or a return day of the court from which the
original writ was issued, shall fail to appear on the day to which
the said writ was returnable, judgment for his default may, on
motion of the plaintiff made in writing, and filed with the clerk
of the court from which said original writ was issued, be entered
by the said court or by the said clerk against the said defend-
ant; which said judgment shall bs stricken out on his appear-
ance being entered to the action at any time before the first