1228                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 558

corporation, joint stock company or association [incorporated under
its laws, or laws against any corporation not incorporated under its
laws, but deemed to hold and exercise franchises herein, or any joint
stock company or association doing business in this State, or in-
dictment found or information filed by any State's attorney in the
State for violation of any State-wide or local laws,] it shall and
may be lawful for [the Attorney General or prosecuting attorney for
the State, or any State's attorney to cause] the Clerk of Court to issue
a summons [or notice to be] directed to the said corporation, joint
stock company or association, in its corporate name, to appear at the
said court to answer to such indictment or information, and such
process may be served in the same manner as provided for service
of process in civil suits mentioned in Rule 106 of the Maryland Rules
of Procedure and in § 96 of Article 23 of this Code, as amended
from time to time.

625.

When the sheriff or other officer shall return such summons as
[or notice] "summoned" or "served" the said corporation, joint
stock company or association shall be considered as in court and as
appearing to said indictment or information; and the court shall
order the clerk to enter an appearance for said corporation, joint
stock company or association, and indorse the plea of not guilty on
said indictment or information, and further proceedings may then
be had thereon, in the same manner as if the said corporation, joint
stock company or association had appeared and pleaded not guilty;
and if the said corporation, joint stock company or association shall
be convicted on said indictment or information, the said court may
proceed to pass judgment thereon and cause process of execution to
be issued to the sheriff of the county against the goods and chattels,
or land and tenements of the said corporation, joint stock company
or association for the amount of the fine and costs which may be
awarded against them, in the same manner as on a judgment in a
civil action; and the said sheriff shall proceed to sell the goods and
chattels or lands and tenements of the said corporation, joint stock
company or association, on the said execution in the same manner as
on executions issued in a civil suit.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That Section 1 of Article 42
of the Code, title "Habeas Corpus", sub-title "Jurisdiction and Pro-
cedure", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

1.

[The Court of Appeals and the Chief Judge thereof shall have the
power to grant the writ of habeas corpus, and to exercise jurisdiction
in all matters relating thereto throughout the whole State. The]
Any judge of the circuit courts for the respective counties of this
State, [and the several judges thereof, out of court, the Superior
Court] or of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City [, the Court of
Common Pleas of said city, the Circuit Court and Circuit Court No. 2
of Baltimore City, and the Baltimore City Court, and the judges of
said several courts, out of court,] and any [the] Judge of the Court
of Appeals [from the City of Baltimore,] shall have the power to
grant the writ of habeas corpus, and to exercise jurisdiction in all
matters pertaining thereto.