CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampton) Esq. Governor

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fendants in any suit in equity, brought in any of the county
courts of this state, reside out of the county in which such suit
is brought, but within this state, that a subpoena or subpoenas
may issue against such absent defendant, directed to the she-
riff of the county in which such defendant shall reside, and it
shall be the duty of such sheriff to serve and return such pro-
cess according to the command thereof, and if the party sum-
moned shall not appear, or appearing shall fail to comply with
the order or rule of the court, process of attachment may issue
against such party, directed to the sheriff of the county in
which the said party shall reside, and it shall be the duty of the
sheriff to execute, and in all things obey, the command con-
tained in the said process; and upon the failure of the sheriff
to return any such subpoena or attachment, or to produce the
body of the party attached, or the return of the said attach-
ment, the court from which such process issued may fine the
said sheriff any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and issue an
execution therefor, together with the costs thereon, directed
to the coroner of the county in which such sheriff re-
sides, and returnable to the court of the last mentioned county
court, and a short copy of the order of the court imposing such
fine shall accompany the said execution, on which said order
and execution such further proceedings may be had as are now
authorised where a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum issues from
one county to another.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the county courts in
their discretion, may appoint intermediate terms between the
common law terms in the respective counties for the transaction
of business on the equity side of the court, to which said terms
process shall be returnable, as well as to the stated terms of

the court.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the act entitled, an ad-
ditional supplement to the act entitled, an act respecting the
equity jurisdiction of the county courts, passed at December
session eighteen hundred and fourteen, to which this is a further
supplement, be and the same is hereby declared to be permanent.
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every thing contain-
ed in the said additional supplement repugnant to or inconsis-
tent with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

Dec. Sess.
1815.

the county but
in the state.

Intermediate

terms.

Act declared
permanent.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 164.
An act to incorporate the Baltimore Exchange Company.
WHEREAS, William Patterson, and others, chairman and
trustees of the Baltimore Exchange Company, in behalf of
themselves and others, proprietors of stock in the said compa-
ny, have petitioned this General Assembly, setting forth that
sundry persons, by articles of voluntary association, have con-
traded and agreed, each with the other, to erect for the pur-
poses of commercial utility, a public building in the city of
Baltimore, called The Baltimore Exchange, and praying that
an act may pass to incorporate the stockholders of the said
company; Therefore,
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Patterson, Robert Goodloe Harper,
Dennis A. Smith, John Oliver, Thomas Tenant, Robert Smith,
Henry Payson, Henry Thompson, Thomas Shepperd, George

Passed Jan.
26, 1816.
Preamble.

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