On the application of any person or persons to the court of common pleas of the county in which the property has been insured, setting forth the loss or destruction of the policy of insurance, on oath or affirmation, together with a description of the property, the amount for which it was insured, the person or persons to whom granted, if practicable, together with the mesne transfers thereof, the court shall grant a rule on the body corporate or politic which granted such policy of insurance, commanding such body corporate or politic to appear before said court, on a day certain, not less than twenty days from the service of said rule, to show cause why a copy of such policy of insurance should not be supplied, in pursuance of the provisions of the first section of this act;¹ and on the default of such body corporate or politic to appear and show cause why such copy as aforesaid should not be supplied, the court shall issue a mandate to such body corporate or politic, to furnish such copy in ten days after service of the same; and on the neglect or refusal of such body corporate or politic, to furnish a copy as aforesaid, the court, on due proof of the service of such mandate, and the neglect or refusal of such body corporate or politic to furnish such copy, shall direct a judgment to be entered by the prothonotary in favor of the person or persons making the application, against the said body corporate or politic, for the sum for which the said policy of insurance was granted, which said judgment shall stand for the security of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, for such time as the policy of insurance itself would have done, and for the like purposes; and the costs of the proceedings shall be paid by the defendant; and the officers rendering services shall receive the like fees as are now allowed by law for similar services.