858 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ARTICLE XIV.

HOWARD COUNTY.

CHAPTER 682.

AN ACT to add additional sections to article 14 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Howard County,"
sub-title "Circuit Court," to follow section 37 of said article,
and to be known as sections 37A, 37B, 37C, 37D, 37B, 37F, 37G,
37H, 37I, 37K and 37L.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following sections be added to article 14 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Howard Coun-
ty," sub-title "Circuit Court," to follow section 37 of said
article, and to be known as sections 37A, 37B, 37C, 37D, 37E,
37F, 37G, 37H, 37I, 37K and 37L.

37A. In addition to the first day of each term of the Circuit
court for said county, the first Monday in February, the second
Monday in April and the third Monday in July, the third Mon-
day in October of each year shall be return days for the return
of processes in civil cases.

37B. All original writs of execution, attachments, replevin,
ejectment, scire facias and habere facias, as well as all other
writs and process issued from or returnable to said court in
civil cases, shall be made returnable to the first return day or
to the first day of the term, whichever shall first occur, after
the issue of the same, unless otherwise ordered, in writing,
by the party directing the same or his attorney; and on the
return of an original writ, not issued or served, the same may
be renewed returnable to the next return day or to the first
day of the succeeding term, whichever shall first occur.

37C. If a defendant be returned summoned, and shall fail
to appear, the clerk of said court shall, on the day following
the return day to which the writ or process served on him is
returnable, enter the appearance of any defendant so sum-
moned and failing to appear, and the action shall proceed in
the same manner as if the party had appeared in person.

37D. In all cases wherever a party is returned summoned to
a return day or to a term, the same proceedings shall be had
as are now had in said court, subject to such rules as the said