ART. 93.] TESTAMENTARY LAW. 617

ARTICLE XCIII.

Testamentary Law.

ACCOUNT.

SEC. 1. Every administrator shall render to the Orphans' Court
of the county in which he shall have obtained letters of adminis-
tration, within the period of twelve months from the date of such
letters, the first account of his administration.

2. If the first account shall not show the estate which was on
hand to be fully administered, another account shall be returned
within six months thereafter, and within every term of six
months thereafter an account shall be returned, until the estate
shall appear to be fully administered; and whenever a discovery
or receipt of assets shall take place after rendering an account,
another account shall be rendered within six months thereafter;
but an administrator shall not be obliged to render accounts
when it appears to the court that the estate has been fully
administered except as to debts which the court shall deem
desperate.

3. If an administrator shall fail to return an account as before
directed within the time limited by law, or within such further
time as the Orphans' Court shall allow, not exceeding six months,
his letters, on application of any person interested, may be re-
voked, and administration may be granted at the discretion of
the court; and the administrator to whom letters may be granted,
shall be entitled to put the delinquent's bond in suit, and to re-
cover such damages thereon as the jury may find; and in assess-
ing such damage, the jury shall allow such sum as will be equal
to six per centum per annum, on the amount of the inventory or
inventories, from the time of the return or returns to the time
of the verdict over and beyond the damages, for such loss or
injury as the estate may have sustained by the delinquent's con-
duct.

4. In such account shall be stated on one side the assets which
have come to his hands, according to the inventory or inventories
returned to the court or received and appraised as herein di-