770 HABEAS CORPUS. [ART. 42.

such reasonable time, (not exceeding three days after such ser-
vice,) as the court or judge shall direct, make return of the writ,
and cause the person detained to be brought before the court or
judge, according to the command of the writ; and shall likewise
certify the true causes of his detainer or imprisonment, if any, or
under what color or pretence such person is confined or restrained
of his liberty.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 43, sec. 5. 1809, ch 125, sec

5. But if the person detained is to be brought more than
twenty miles, the officer or other person shall be allowed so many
days more to bring him in, as will be equal to one day for every
twenty miles of such further distance.

Ibid sec 6. 1819, ch. 187, sec. 1.

6. On any application for a habeas corpus, if it shall be made to
appear to the satisfaction of the court or judge that there is
probable cause for believing that the person who may be charged
with confining or detaining the person making the application,
or on whose behalf the same is made, is about to remove the
person so detained from the place where he may then be con-
fined or detained, for the purpose of evading any writ of habeas
corpus, or for other purpose, or that the person charged as
aforesaid would evade or not obey any such writ, then the court
or judge shall insert in the writ of habeas corpus a clause com-
manding the sheriff of the county in which the person charged
as aforesaid may be, to serve the writ on the person to whom the
same may be directed, and to cause the said person immediately
to be and appear before the said court or judge, together with
the person so confined or detained.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1819, ch. 137, sec. 1.

7. It shall be the duty of the sheriff to whom the writ men-
tioned in the preceding section may be delivered, immediately to
execute the same, and to carry the person charged with the
detention, together with the person detained, before the court or
judge, who shall proceed to inquire into the subject-matter.