6 The Compact of 1785 (d) All piracies, crimes and offenses committed on any of the same waters, by a citizen of either Virginia or Maryland, either against the other, are to be tried in the courts of the offender's state. (e) The jurisdiction of each state over the Potomac River shall be the same as in the waters described above, except that piracies, crimes and offenses committed by persons not citizens of either state, upon persons not citi zens of either state, are to be tried by the state to which the offender is first brought. The balance of this Article concerns details of civil process and practice. [Summary: Jurisdiction over the Chesapeake Bay and Pocomoke River is covered by Paragraphs a, b, c, and d. Jurisdiction over the Potomac River is covered by Para graphs a, b, d, and e. 11. Any vessel entering any port on the Potomac River may be attached for debt by process from the state into which such vessel entered; if the commercial regulations of either state are violated by a vessel entering into either the Potomac or Pocomoke rivers, the vessel and its cargo may be seized by process from the state whose laws are violated; any person who shall flee from justice in a civil or criminal case, or attempt to defraud creditors by re moving his property may be taken on any part of the Chesapeake Bay or of the Potomac and Pocomoke Rivers, by process of the state from which he fled, or any property so removed may be taken similarly; process from either state may be served on any part of the said rivers for an indebtedness or injury suffered by a citizen of that state, upon any person not a citizen of the other state. In all trials resulting from the jurisdiction settled by this com pact, citizens of either state shall attend as witnesses in the other, upon a summons being properly served. |
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