ART. 16] PLEADING, PRACTICE AND PROCESS. 429

1888, art. 16, sec. 149. Rule 29

162. No special replication to any answer shall be filed.
But, if any matter alleged in the answer shall make it neces-
sary for the plaintiff to amend his bill, he may obtain leave
to amend the same, upon application to the court or judge
thereof, within such time and upon such terms as may be pre-
scribed by order.

Ibid. sec. 150. Rule 30.

163. If the plaintiff, so obtaining any order to amend his
bill after answer, or after plea or demurrer thereto, shall not
make the amendment within the time allowed, he shall be con-
sidered to have abandoned the leave to amend, and the cause
shall proceed as if no application for such leave had been
made. But where such amendment is made, and new facts are
introduced, and the case is thus varied in any material respect,
the defendant shall be at liberty to answer anew, or to plead,
or demur to the bill as amended, within such time as the
court or judge thereof may prescribe, after notice of the amend-
ment made; and notice may, in all cases, be given by service
of a copy of the bill as amended, upon the defendant, or upon
his solicitor, if there be one; or it may be by subpoena. The
mode of proceeding in default of answer to the matter of the
amendment shall be the same as that in default of answer to
the original bill; and the proceeding on answer, plea or
demurrer, filed to the amended bill, shall be the same .as that
on answer, plea, or demurrer to an original bill.

Cockey v. Plempel, 86 Md 185.

Ibid. sec. 151. 1860, art. 16, sec. 104. 1785, ch. 72, sec. 22.

164. In order to enforce obedience to the process, rules and
orders of the courts of equity, in all cases where any party or
person shall be in contempt, for disobedience, non-performance
or non-observance of any process, rule or order of the court, or
for any other matter or thing whatsoever, whereby or wherein
a contempt, according to the rules, law, practice or course of
the said courts may be incurred, such party or person shall, for
every such contempt, and before he shall be released or dis-
charged 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 sum 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 con-
tempt or otherwise, upon the order of the court, shall stand
committed and remain in close custody until the said process,