ART. 23.] CORPORATIONS—PROCESS. 399

State, or after any contract shall have been made by it with any
resident of this State, shall cease to have any agent in this State,
and no president, director or manager of such corporation, or
joint stock company or association, can be found in this State,
then in such case service of any writ or process issuing from the

courts of this State, on the person who was last the agent of such

corporation or joint stock company in this State, shall be deemed
sufficient service, if a copy of such process be served on the presi-
dent or manager, or two directors of such corporation or joint
stock company, wherever they may be found, and an affidavit of
such service be made before any person authorized by the laws of
this State to take the acknowledgments of deeds.

Northern Central R. W. Co. v. Rider, 45 Md. 24.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 213.

299. If any corporation whatever, upon which process has
been served as hereinbefore prescribed, shall fail to appear during
the term or rule day for the return of process to which such pro-
cess shall be returned, or by the second day of the succeeding term

or rule day for the return of process, judgment by default shall
be entered against such corporation, and the amount of the claim
of the plaintiff shall be ascertained by a jury of inquiry or other-
wise, as in other cases of judgment by default.

Ibid. sec. 214.

300. When a judgment has been recovered against a corpora-
tion, and an execution on such judgment returned nulla bona, the
person or body corporate entitled to such judgment may file a bill
in equity against all or any persons who may be in any manner
indebted to said corporation, either f or the stock thereof or on any
other account; and if the court shall find such person or persons
to be indebted to said corporation, a decree shall pass directing
such person so found to be indebted to bring the money into

court, to be distributed rateably among the creditors of such cor-
poration, in the same manner that distribution is made on a cred-
itor's bill; and any of the defendants to said bill may pray a trial
at law of any issue of fact in said case, which issue shall be sent
to a court of law for trial; and the plaintiff may require, by said
bill or by another bill, the officers of such corporation to discover,