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Process out of a county may be served by any person, and when served by a process officer of the county where service is made may be proved by affidavit.
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53. Every process which shall be required to be served out of the county in which the cause is to be heard may be served by the process officer of any civil bill court, or by any other person; and when the service of process out of the county shall be made by a process officer of the county where such service shall be made, such service may be proved by affidavit purporting to have been made before a master extraordinary in Chancery, or any other person authorized by law to take affidavits; and the fee for taking such affidavit shall be one shilling, and shall be part of the costs incident to the civil bill; and such affidavit shall be filed with the clerk of the peace of the county in which the same shall be used as evidence of service, and before the hearing of the cause in which such affidavit is intended to be used, and shall specify fully the residence of the parties served, and the residence of the person making such affidavit, and the manner in which service was effected, for the filing whereof such clerk of the peace shall be entitled to a fee of sixpence.
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