236 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 124

and that the laws of the state in which the prosecution is
pending, or grand jury investigation has commenced or is
about to commence, and of any other state through which
the witness may be required to pass by ordinary course of
travel, will give to him protection from arrest and the service
of civil and criminal process, he shall issue a summons, with
a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness to at-
tend and testify in the court where the prosecution is pending,
or where a grand jury investigation has commenced or is
about to commence at a time and place specified in the sum-
mons. In any such hearing the certificate shall be prima
facie evidence of all the facts stated therein.

If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken into
immediate custody and delivered to an officer of the request-
ing State to assure his attendance in the requesting State,
such judge may, in lieu of notification of the hearing, direct
that such witness be forthwith brought before him for said
hearing; and the judge at the hearing being satisfied of the
desirability of such custody and delivery, for which determi-
nation the certificate shall be prima facie proof of such desir-
ability may, in lieu of issuing sub-poena or summons, order
that said witness be forthwith taken into custody and de-
livered to an officer of the requesting State.

If the witness, who is summoned as above provided, after
being paid or tendered by some properly authorized person
the sum of ten cents a mile for each mile by the ordinary
traveled route to and from the court where the prosecution is
pending and five dollars for each day, that he is required to
travel and attend as a witness, fails without good cause to
attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be
punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any
witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record
in this state.

560B. WITNESS FROM ANOTHER STATE SUMMONED TO TESTI-
FY IN THIS STATE. If a person in any state, which by its laws
has made provision for commanding persons within its borders
to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions, or grand jury
investigations commenced or about to commence, in this state,
is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of