Note 557 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 3)
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Pub. Acts (1899), 326, 327. When the order for appearance is served outside the state, the law requires that the fact of service be proved by affidavit before a justice or notary whose legal character and signature must be attested by the certificate of a court of record. See the earlier act of 1895: Pub. Acts (1895), 371; and cf. Howell, Gen. Stat., II, 1624; Miller, Comp. Laws (1899), III, 2657.