746 COURTS. [ART. 26

wilfully preventing, or disabling from attending or testifying
a witness, or party to an action, while going to, remaining at,
or returning from the court, or sitting of an examiner in equity,
or commissioner, where such cause may be set for trial, hear-
ing, or the taking of testimony; (5) for fraudulently and wil-
fully removing, concealing or destroying any book, paper or
document for the production of which for purposes of evidence,
either at the trial of a cause or before an examiner in equity
or commissioner, notice shall have been given; (6). for rescuing
any person from the custody or removing any property from
the possession of any officer holding said person or property
by virtue of any writ of a court of competent jurisdiction;
(7) any person for assuming to be on attorney, solicitor or
other officer of the court, and acting as such without authority.
Every offense which has been or shall have been wholly or
partly committed against this section before the repeal and
re-enactment thereof with amendments as hereinbefore pro-
vided shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried, determined and
punished, and every penalty in respect to any such offense
shall be imposed or inflicted, and any fine shall be imposed,
enforced or recovered as if said section had not been repealed;
and no case or proceeding pending shall abate by reason of
such repeal, and any liability in respect to any matter or
thing committed or done before such repeal and re-enactment
with amendments shall continue and be of the same force and
effect as if said section had not been so repealed and re-enacted.
Taylor v. Llewellin, 1 H and McH. 19. State v. Stone, 3 H. & McH. 115,
Garretson v. Cole, 1 H. & J. 370. West. v. Hughes, 1 H. & J. 453. Crap-
ster v. Griffith, 2 Bl. 1. Binney's Case, 2 Bl. 101. Deakin's Case, 2 Bl. 398.
Ex parte Maulsby, 13 Md. 625.

1888, art. 26, sec. 5. 1860, art. 29, sec. 5. 1852, ch. 173, sec. 5.

5. In case of the absence of the judges of any court, (except
the court of appeals,) the clerk may adjourn the court from day
to day; or he may, by written order from the judges, adjourn
the court to the next term thereof, or to such other day before
the next term as by said order he may be directed.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 29, sec. 6. 1796, ch. 43, sec. 20. 1801, ch.' 74, sec. 17.
1858, ch. 363. 1890, ch. 411.

6. The clerk of any court in this State may during the recess
of said court enter a judgment by confession with the assent of
the parties or attorneys in writing, which shall be filed with the
titling, narr., cause of action and other papers in the case in