Proclamation for absconding persons requires specified publication and appearance; failure can lead to declaration as proclaimed offender. Courts may publish a written proclamation requiring an absconding person to appear at a specified place and time not less than thirty days after publication. Publication must include public reading and affixture in the locality of ordinary residence and affixture at the court-house, and may include newspaper publication. A court's written statement that the proclamation was duly published in the prescribed manner is conclusive evidence of compliance. For proclamations concerning accused persons facing particularly serious punishments, failure to appear permits the court, after inquiry, to pronounce the person a proclaimed offender and issue a declaration.