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238. If an administrator shall believe that any person conceals
any part of his decedent's estate, he may file a petition in the
Orphans' Court of the county in which he obtained administra-
tion, alleging such concealment, and the court shall compel an
answer thereto on oath, and if satisfied upon an examination of
the whole case that the party charged has concealed any part
of the personal estate of the deceased, may order the delivery
thereof to the administrator, and may enforce obedience to such
order by attachment, imprisonment or sequestration of pro-
perty.

239. The provisions of the aforegoing section are extended to
all cases where any person interested in any decedent's estate
shall, by bill or petition, allege that the administrator has con-
cealed, or has in his hands and has omitted to return in the
inventory or list of debts, any part of his decedent's assets;
and if the court shall finally adjudge, and decree in favor of the
allegations of such petition or bill, in whole or in part, they shall
order an additional inventory, or list of debts, as the case may
be, to be returned by the administrator, and appraisement to be
made accordingly, to comprehend the assets omitted; and such
additional inventory or list of debts shall have the same effect
to all intents and purposes, as any inventory or list of debts, be-
fore returned; and the court may compel obedience to the said
order by attachment and imprisonment, and sequestration of
property; and if the said administrator shall, either before or
after such process of attachment, imprisonment and sequestra-
tion, fail to comply with such order, his administration may be
revoked, and the court may direct his bond to be put in suit,
and the assets ordered to be comprised in such additional in-
ventory or list of debts, shall be decreed and taken to be within
the condition of said bond.

240. If upon the answer to any petition or bill filed under the
provisions of the last two preceding sections, either party shall
require it, the court shall cause an issue or issues to be made up
and sent to the Circuit Court of the county, or the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, to be there tried
and disposed of as other issues from the Orphans' Court; and
either party to such bill or petition may appeal to the Circuit
Court of the county or the Superior Court of Baltimore city.

241. Whenever any joint administrator or executor shall ap-
prehend that he is likely to suffer by the negligence or miscon