JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

shall extend, or as it shall be equitably; and such bill shall
be deemed and proceeded with as a creditor's bill in equi-
ty; and the creditors of said corporate body applying upon
notice, and according to the terms usual in cases of credi-
tors' bills aforesaid, shall receive payment rateably and pro-

CHAP. 307.

Proceeding as on

creditor's bill

portionably out of the amount of the liability as aforesaid;
and the court shall order such amount to be brought into
court for distributive payment as aforesaid; and if the said
defendants or any of them shall pray a trial at law of any
issue in fact in said case, the said court shall send such
issue to some court of law for trial in manner as issues
are, which are sent from Chancery, and it is hereby further
provided, that the person or persons, or body corporate,

Order amount into

court, for distribu-

tion

Trial at law of

facts.

entitled as aforesaid to file such bill, may in and by said
bill or by a distinct bill, require said corporate body to dis-
cover under oath of any of its officers, who for that object
may be made parties defandants, the person or persons or
bodies corporate, liable or indebted as aforesaid, and the
considerations and circumstances of such liability and in-

May compel offic-

cers of coporate

body to discover

under oath, as to

liability &c

debtedness, and the amounts thereof respectively; and it
is hereby provided, that any of the parties in said causes

Right of appeal.

shall be entitled to an appeal as allowed in cases in equity.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That any process issued by
any court of this state against an incorporated company,
holding and exercising franchises within said state, may be

Process served on

officers

served upon the President or any Director or manager or
other officer, of such company, with the same effect as if
such process were screed on the President and Directors
or a majority of them; and such process shall be deemed
to every effect, service upon said corporate body.

Deemed effective

CHAPTER 307,

An ad to subject slocks and funded properly to attachment
and execution for debt.

Passed Mar.22,1833

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be lawful for any person or per-
sons or body corporate, who shall have sued out of any
court of law or equity, in this state, any writ of fieri facias,
or with of attachment, against the goods and chattels of
any person or persons or body corporate, according to the

Persons sueing out

writs of fieri facias

or attachments

laws of this state, to instruct the sheriff or coroner or other
officer, to whom such writ shall have been directed to lay

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May direct the

same to be laid