1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND:

CHAP. 107.

or payable in any one year after the date of said mortgage,
and provided also, that nothing herein contained, shall be
construed to authorize the commissioners of said district to
apply more than the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to the
purposes mentioned in the eighteenth section of the said act
of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter ninety-eight.

Not more than
4, 000 dollars
to be levied in
any one year

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
said district, are authorized to levy and collect not more
than four thousand dollars in any one year, for paying the
amount so be borrowed.

CHAPTER 107.

Passed Feb
17, 1812.

An act to facilitate the execution of Commissions, issued
from, other Staees.

If any wit-
ness shall re-
fuse to attend
or answer,
justice of the
peace may is-
sue attach-
ment

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That whenever hereafter any commission or
process, in the nature of a commission to take testimony,
shall be issued by any court of any of the United States,
or by any court of any District or Territory of the United
Stales, directed to any person or persons, cither by name
or otherwise, in this State, and any witness, who shall have
been duly notified so to do, shall fail to attend at the execu-
tion of such commission, or refuse to answer such questions
as may be propounded to him under such commission, it
shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of this
State, upon affidavit or other sufficient proof of such failure
1o attend after notice, or refusal to answer, to issue an at-
tachment in the name of the State, and compel the appear-
ance and answer of such witness, in the same manner as
any county court of this State would be authorized to do,
if such witness had been summoned to appear before such
court, and had failed to attend, or had refused to answer.

Fee 50 cents
for attachment

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the fee to a justice of
the peace for issuing such attachment shall be fifty cents,
and the fee for serving the same to the constable who serves
it, shall be fifty cents, to be paid by the witness against
whom such attachment is issued.

Witnesses—
Low paid

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all witnesses summoned
under such commissions shall be allowed the same amount
for their attendance as is allowed for the attendance of wit-
nesses before justices of the peace, such allowance to be
paid by the party summoning them.