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courts may be incurred, such party or person shall, for every such
contempt, and before he shall be released or discharged from the
same, pay to the clerk of the court, (to be paid by him at the end
of every six months to the treasurer, for the use of the State,) a
Bum not exceeding twenty dollars, as a fine for the purgation of
every such contempt; and the said party or person being in court
upon any process of contempt or otherwise, upon the order of the
court, shall stand committed and remain in close custody until the
said process, rule or order shall be fully performed, obeyed and
fulfilled, and until the said fine or fines for such contempt im-
posed by the said court, and the costs, shall be fully paid.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 16, sec. 105. 1844, ch. 219.

152. In all cases in chancery, a rule security for costs may be
laid at any time before a final decree is passed, by any defendant,
against a plaintiff, non-resident at the time of fillng the blll, or
becoming so after the filing thereof.

Hatton V. Weems, 12 G. & J. 84, Mayer v. Tyson, 1 Bl 564.

Ibid sec. 108 1835, ch. 380, sec. 7.

153. When a court of equity shall require bond, with or with-
out security, to be given in any case, and the parties concerned
therein shall be numerous, or if it shall appear for other reasons
proper, the court may take such bond in the name of the State as
obligee, and the same may be sued on by any person interested, as
public bonds may; and a copy, certified by the clerk of the court,
under the seal thereof, shall be received in evidence, and have the
same effect as certified copies of public bonds.

State v. Wyman, 2 G. & J, 254. State v. Bryan, 3 Gill, 388. Ing v.. State, 8
Md 295. State v. Norwood, 12 Md 193. LeStrange v. State, 58 Md. 26.

Ibid. sec. 109. 1785, ch. 72, sec. 18.

154. Payment of the allowances to examiners, commissioners,
witnesses, masters, auditors and clerks to examiners and commis-
sioners, may be compelled by order of the court, and process of
contempt for disobedience to such order may be issued as in other
cases.

Ibid. sec. 110 1832, ch 302, sec. 6. 1874, ch. 312.

155. In all cases in the courts of equity, it shall be the duty of
the said court to file their opinions for or in respect of any final