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pear to answer and have adjudicated the matters complained of in the
bill or petition. If the defendant or defendants do not appear pursuant
to the mandate of the subpoena, the court at any time either before
or after hearing or an adjudication against such party, may issue a
warrant for his or their apprehension and arrest as hereinbefore
provided.

(d) Arrest; release on bond.—When a defendant or defendants
is or are arrested pursuant to a warrant, he or they shall be taken be-
fore the court issuing it, or[, if the court is not in session,] before any
[magistrate of the county or Municipal Court judge of the City of Bal-
timore, as the case may be,] commissioner of the district court [where
the court issuing the warrant has jurisdiction]; and [said] the
court [, magistrate, or Municipal Court judge, as the case may be]
or commissioner shall require the defendant or defendants to give
bond to the State of Maryland in [such penalty as the court shall have
theretofore specified in the warrant] in an appropriate penalty, with
good and sufficient securities, conditioned that they will appear in the
court issuing such warrant on a specified day and at a specified time to
answer the complaint and to obey any order which may be passed
or which shall have been passed by the court in the proceedings
[; provided, that if the defendant or defendants are brought before
the court issuing the warrant, said court may release them or either
of them on such bond or other terms as said court may then deem
proper regardless of the amount of bond specified in the warrant].
In default of such security, the court[, magistrate, or Municipal
Court judge] or commissioner shall commit such defendant or de-
fendants to the county or city jail as the case may be until the
bond is given or until they are discharged by the court issuing the
warrant in due course of law.

Section 16. And be it further enacted, That Section 2 of Article
18, Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement volume), title
"Acknowledgments," subtitle, "Uniform Acknowledgments Act," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

2. Acknowledgment within the State.

The acknowledgment of any instrument may be made in this
State before:

(1)    A judge of a court of record;

(2)    A clerk or deputy clerk of a court having a seal;

(3)    A notary public; or

[ (4) A justice of the peace; or]
[ (5) ] (4) A master in chancery.

Section 17. And be it further enacted, That Section 5 of Article
22, Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume), title
"Postmortem Examiners," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

5. Duties and office of medical examiners.

It shall be the duty of the chief medical examiner, the assistant
medical examiners and the deputy medical examiners to attend to all