ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so

as to read as follows :

SEC. 84. In all civil suits or actions in the circuit

courts when capias ad respondendum formerly issued,

a writ of summons shall be issued for the defendant,

Writ of sum-
mons issued.

in which shall be stated the purpose for which he is

summoned, and the said summons shall be returnable

on the first day of the term next after issuing the

same, and the sheriff of any county from which the

writ of summons for any defendant or defendants may

be issued by the circuit court of any such county, or

the sheriff of the city of Baltimore, in case the writ

of summons is issued from any of the courts of the

Who to serve
summons.

city of Baltimore, may serve any such writ of sum-

mons on the defendant or defendants named in the

writ, wherever he may find such defendant or defen-

dants, whether in or out of the county or city, from a

court of which such process may have issued, or the

writs of summons may be directed to and served by

the sheriff of any county or city where the defendant

may chance to be, returnable to the court where the

process issued; and any writ or summons, when so

served and returned, shall have the same effect as if it

had been served on the defendant or defendants by the

sheriff of the county in said county, from a court of

which the said writ of summons may issue.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 139.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Western Mary-

land Tidewater Railroad. Company, to enlarge its

powers, and to authorize it to make certain contracts

with the Western Maryland Railroad Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Western Maryland Tidewater

Railroad Company, incorporated under the act of

Construct and

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter two hun-

maintain eleva-
tors, etc.

dred and forty-two, on the fourteenth day of December,

eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be and the same is