HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

161. In addition to the first day of each term
of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, the
Court of Common Pleas, in the city of Balti-
more, and the Baltimore City Court, the second

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Monday in February, March, April, June, July,
August, October, November and December, in
each year, shall be return days, and the words
"return day," wherever used in this act, shall
apply as well to the first day of each term, as
to the other return days herein enumerated .

162. All original writs, writs of execution,
attachment, replevin, ejectment, scire facias
and habere facias, a,s well as all other writs
and process issued from or returnable to any
of said Courts, which, under the practice here-
tofore existing, would have been returnable to

Additional
return days.

the first day of a term, or to a return day,
shall hereafter be made returnable to the first
return day after the issue of the same, or may
be made returnable to the second return day
thereafter, if the party by whose direction
the same was issued, or his attorney, shall so
request in writing.

When to be
returnable.

163. On the return of an original writ, not
executed in either of said Courts, the same
may be renewed, returnable to the next return
day thereafter.

164. After the execution of any writ or other
process, made returnable to a return day in
«ither of said Courts, the same proceedings may

Itenewable.

be had thereupon as if the same had been
made returnable, and had been returned to a
term of said Court under the practice hereto-
fore existing, except as hereinafter otherwise
provided.

165. If a defendant be returned "summoned,"
and shall fail to appear, the Clerk of the Court
shall, on the day following the return day to

Proceedings.

which the writ or process served on him is re-
turnable, enter the appearance of any defend-
ant so summoned, and failing to appear, and
the action shall proceed in the same manner
as if the party had appeared in person.
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What if no
appearance.