88 CHANCERY. [ART. 16.

come and expenditures of such non compos mentis, for the care
and trouble of such trustee, or person so charged as aforesaid.

86. In all cases where a trustee has been appointed by the
court for the management of the person and estate of a person
non compos mentis, the court may decree that the property of
such non compos mentis, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
be sold for the support of such non compos mentis, or for the
payment of all reasonable and just expenses which said trustee
may have incurred.

87. The court may, on the application of any trustee of a per-
son non compos mentis, and receiving proof that it is necessary
and proper to confine such person, direct such trustee to send the
person under his charge to any hospital in the vicinity of the city
of Baltimore, provided he can be there received, to remain until
the further order of the court; and any person non compos mentis
who has heretofore been sent to any hospital or receptacle in Phila-
delphia under an order of a court of equity of this State, may be
removed, by order of the court of the county or city having
equity jurisdiction from which such person was sent, to any of
said hospitals near the city of Baltimore, and the court may
enforce its orders as in other cases.

NON-RESIDENTS.

88. If in any suit in chancery, by bill or petition, respecting in
any manner the sale, partition, conveyance or transfer of any
real or personal property lying or being in this State, or to fore-
close any mortgage thereon, or to enforce any contract or lien
relating to the same, or concerning any use, trust, or other inte-
rest therein, any or all of the defendants are .non-residents, the
court in which such suit is pending may order notice to be given
to such non-residents of the substance and object of such bill or
petition, and warning them to appear by a day therein stated,
and if such non-residents shall not appear at the time stated in
such notice, the bill or petition may be taken pro confesso, or a
commission to take testimony may be issued ex parte, and such
decree passed as may be just and equitable.

89. The preceding section to apply to all non-resident defend-
ants, as well in bills of interpleader as in other suits, whether
non compos mentis, infants, or of full age, except in cases where
application is made by the guardian or prochein ami of any non-