1156 PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW. [ART. 75.

residents of another county, a duplicate writ may issue to the
county where any of said heirs or devisees reside, directed to the
sheriff thereof, who shall serve and return the same to the court
from which it issued, and the same proceedings shall be had as if
such heirs or devisees resided in the county where the suit was
brought; provided, all such actions shall be instituted in the
county in which the deceased died, if any of his heirs reside
there, and if not, in the county in which his real estate or some
part thereof is situated.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 75, sec. 97. 1777, ch. 12, secs. 1-2.

141. 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.

Ibid sec 98. 1795, ch. 23.

142. 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 fall 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.

Ibid. sec. 104. 1817, ch. 139, sec. 1.

143. 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 Balti-
more city, and on the back thereof shall endorse his name as
clerk of the court from which it issues, and shall forthwith