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and where there is no commissioner, or heis unable to attend) before the chief justice, judge, presiding judge, or president of any court of record of the United States or of any state or territory thereof having a seal and a clerk or prothonotary.
In some states, (as until lately, in Pennsylvania) it is the practice when the defendant is liable to this process, to indorse on the writ, 'No bail required' in which case he need only give the sheriff, in writing, an authority to the prothonotary ...
This could include for example, fixing the proportion which every person has to pay of any particular tax; estimation of damages by the prothonotary; ...
 See also: Notary, Court, Law, Term, Reference
  
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