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Deceased per-
sons, real
estate may be
sold to pay
debts, etc.
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188. Where any person dies, or shall have died, leaving
any real estate in possession, remainder or reversion, and not
leaving personal estate sufficient to pay his debts and costs of
administration, the court, on any suit instituted by any of his
creditors, may decree that all the real estate of such person,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be sold to pay
his debts; and the funeral expenses of the decedent, to be
allowed in the discretion of the court according to the condi-
tion and circumstances of the deceased, not to exceed three
hundred dollars, shall be considered the debt of said decedent;
and in the distribution of the proceeds arising from any sale
under this section, the claim for funeral expenses shall take
priority to all claims of the common creditors of the deceased.
This section to apply to all cases where the heirs or devisees
are residents or non-residents, or are of full age, or infants, or
of sound mind, or non compos mentis, and to cases where the
parties left no heirs, or where it is not known whether he left
heirs or devisees, or, if the heirs or devisees be unknown, and
if there be no heirs, the State's Attorney shall appear to the
bill.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the day of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1900.
CHAPTER 391.
AN ACT to repeal Section one hundred and ninety-two of
Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Wash-
ington County," sub-title "Hagerstown," as amended by
the Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Chapter
one hundred and ninety-two, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
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Hagerstown.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section one hundred and ninety-two of Article 22
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Washington
County," sub-title "Hagerstown," as amended by the Acts of
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Chapter one hundred and
ninety-two, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments so as to read as follows:
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