1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP. 307.

upon any interest

which def't has

in any joint stock

company

the same upon any interest which the defendant or person
or persons or body corporate, against whose goods and
chattels such writ shall have issued, may have or be enti-
tled to in the capital, or joint stock of any corporation or
corporations, or in the debt of any corporation or corpora-
tions, transferable upon the books of such corporation or

Direction for ser-

ving such process,

and making return

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
any sheriff or coroner, or other officer, to whom any such
writ may have been directed, upon being instructed to lay
such attachment or execution upon any of the property in
the first section mentioned, to deliver to the president or
other chief officer of every such corporation or leave at the
banking room, office or place of business, of every such
corporation, a notice in writing, directed to such corpora-
tion, or the chief officer thereof, setting forth in substance,
that by virtue of a writ or writs of attachment, or fieri faci-
as, issued out of court to him directed, he hath seized and
taken all the interest of —— , in the capital stock of such
corporation (or in the debt of such corporation transferable
on the books thereof) at the suit of —— ; and such sheriff or
coroner, or other officer, shall retain in his own hands and

randum endorsed thereon, of the time, place and manner
of delivering the said notice, and shall in his return refer
to the said copy and memorandum, and make them
part of his return.

Sheriff may re-

quire a certificate

of the number of

shares; &c

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That at any time after the
service as aforesaid, of any such notice, such sheriff or co-
roner or other officer, may require the president or any
other officer, of any corporation upon which such notice
may have been served, to certify to him in writing, the
number of shares of the capital joint stock, of such corpo-
ration, and the amount of debt transferable on the books
of such corporation which were standing in the name of
the person or persons, or body corporate, whose interest in
the joint stock or debt of such corporation is mentioned in

If officers of re-

fuse to give certi-

ficate

such notice to have been seized or taken, at the time of
the service of such notice: and if any president or other
officer so required, shall refuse or neglect for twenty-four
hours, to deliver to such sheriff or coroner, or other offi-
cer, such a certificate as is above directed, it shall be the

Return the facts

duty of such sheriff or coroner, or other officer, to certify
the fact to the court, to which the writ or write in such no-
tice mentioned is or are returnable, or to some Judge there-
of; whereupon such court or any Judge thereof may direct