1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 306.

said process, and an alias scire facias shall be that no cor-
porate body is to be found in the county, or no officer of
such corporation, whereby said corporation may be sum-
moned, the said court may, on a declaration being filed in

Or return of non-

est

Court may order

inquiry by jury

the cause, setting forth the causes why the said corporate
body should be ousted, and the act of incorporation, char-
ter, and franchises ,and powers thereof, vacated and annull-
ed order, that na inquiry as in cases of judgments by de-

Form or verdict.

fault, be had by a jury, upon the allegations of said declara-
tion; and the jury shall certify to the court in manner as
usual in cases of inquisition on writs or orders of inquiry in
suits at common law, the finding of said jury, and shall

Judgment thereon

certify the same in the form and terms of a special verdict,
and thereupon the court shall proceed to judgment as afore-
said, in the matter of said corporate body.

Whence such

fieri facias shall be

issued

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the scire facias aforesaid
shall issue out of the county court of the county, or of any
of the counties, which shall be prescribed by the act of in-
corporation thereof, or which shall be or shall have been
used by such corporate body, for keeping its place of busi-
ness in; or, if it have no such place of business prescribed
or used in fact as aforesaid, then of any county in or through
which the works, operations, or dealings, of said corporate
body shall be, or shall, by said act, be proposed to be, or
to be carried on, or conducted.

When judgment

against is recover-

ed

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That where judgment against
any corporate body shall have been recovered and nulla
bona to any execution on such judgment shall have been re-
turned, it shall be lawful for the person or persons or body
corporate, entitled to the benefit of such judgment to file

Bill may be filed

in court of equity

a bill in the court of Chancery, or in a county court, as a
court of equity against all or any person or persons, or bo-
dies corporates, who shall have distinctly or separately or
otherwise entered into any contracts with said corporation,

Against persons

&c. liable to said

corportations

or shall be liable to it otherwise, or shall have distinctly,
separately or otherwise executed to said corporate body
any promissory note or other security for or on account of
stock, in and of said corporate body or on any other ac-

Court on finding

such person, &c

shall decree pay-

ment, &c.

termining the said person or persons, or bodies corporate,
to be indebted or liable as aforesaid, decree payment against
such person or persons or bodies corporate, to the person

Rateably

or persons entitled to the benefit of said judgment, ratea-
bly with other creditors of said corporate body, who by
virtue of the provisions hereof shall be entitled to the ben-
efit of said decree, so far as such liability as aforesaid