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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1824

ed to select or appoint persons of judgment and discretion to be
assessors to value the assessable property in said county, agreea-
bly to the provisions of an act passed at November Session, 1812,
entitled "An Act for the valuation of real and personal property
in the several counties in this state."

Commission-
ers of tax.

2. And be it enacted, That William R. Sanderson, William Dur-
bin, Patrick M'Gill, senior, Joseph Taney and Plummer Liams,
are hereby appointed commissioners of the tax for Frederick coun-
ty, who are hereby authorized and empowered to carry into
full effect and operation, all the provisions of this act as well as of
the aforesaid act of 1812, entitled, "An Act for the valuation of
real and personal property in the several counties in this state."

Passed Feb.
23, 1825.

Proceedings
directed.

CHAPTER 133.
An act giving compulsory process after summons to procure the attendance
of witnesses in causes and other proceedings in the High Court of Chan-
cery, or in the County Courts as Courts of Equity.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases hereafter, when any witness shall have been
summoned by a commissioner or auditor appointed by chancery
or any of the county courts as courts of equity, to take evidence
in any cause or proceeding in said courts, to appear before such
commissioner or auditor to give testimony in such cause or pro-
ceeding, and shall refuse or neglect to obey such summons, or at-
tending, shall refuse to answer such interrogatories, as are pro-
pounded to him before such commissioner or auditor, in all and
each of such cases, it shall be the duty of the said commissioner
or auditor at the request of either party to such suit or proceeding,
immediately to certify such default or neglect under his hand as
such commissioner or auditor to the register or clerk of such court,
whose duty it shall be upon receipt of such certificate forthwith to
issue process of attachment against the person mentioned in such
certificate, and the said court is hereby authorized and empowered
to allow such process to compel his or her attendance to give evi-
dence in such cause before the chancellor or county court as a court
of equity in open court at such term of the said court thereafter as
the party applying for such attachment shall request, Provided, that
wherever such writ is granted, it shall be the duty of the party ob-
taining the same to give written notice to the opposite party, or bis
counsel, of the time of the return thereof.

2. And be it further enacted, That the said process herein provi-
ded for, shall be directed to the sheriff or coroner as the case may
be, of the county wherein the person to be attached resides, and af-
ter return is made it shall be lawful for such process to be renewed
from term to term as the case may require; Provided however,
that notice shall always be given of any return to the opposite par-
ty as aforesaid.

Passed Feb.
23, 1825.
Ascertain,
levy and pay.

CHAPTER 134.

An act for the relief of Doctor Robert Wright of Queen Anns county.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the levy court of Queen Anns county, be, and they are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to examine the account of Doctor Robert
Wright of said county, for the professional services rendered in
examing and dissecting the bodies of negro Phill and Ann Poor,