390 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the City of Baltimore, and the Baltimore City Court, the second
Monday in February, March, April, June, July, August, Oc-
tober, November and December, in each year, shall be return
days, and the words "return day," wherever used in this sub-
division of this Article, shall apply as well to the first day of
each term as to the other return days herein enumerated.

304. All original writs, writs of execution, attachment, re-
plevin, ejectment, scire facias and habere facias, as well as all
other writs and process issued from or returnable to any of said
courts, which under the practice heretofore existing would
have been returnable to the first day of the 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.

305. 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, and after two returns of any
original writ not executed at the two succeeding return days
after the writ is first issued, the same shall be permitted to lie
dormant, renewable only on the Written order, of the plaintiff
or his attorney of record to such future return day as the said
plaintiff or his attorney may elect, and upon a further return if
not executed, said writ shall be again permitted to lie, renew-
able only as aforesaid, the said plaintiff or his attorney having
the right to renew said writ to as many subsequent return days,
under the same mode of procedure as may be deemed proper,
until the same is executed.

306. After the execution of any writ or other process made
returnable to a return day in either of said courts, the same
proceedings may be had thereupon as if the same had been
made returnable, and had been returned to a term of said court
under the practice heretofore existing, except as hereinafter
otherwise provided.

307. If a defendant be returned "summoned," and shall fail
to appear, the clerk of the court on the day following the return