304 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 146]

sicians so appointed, and to prescribe the manner of holding
coroner's inquests by the police magistrates in said precincts
as the same was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 723 of
the Acts of 1908.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 146.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 93 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Testa-
mentary Law," to be designated section 108A, to follow imme-
diately after section 108, providing for the grant of letters
in cases where persons die leaving real estate in Maryland,
but no personal estate therein, and for notice to creditors,
and relating to the title of such real estate and the rights of
purchasers and creditors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section is hereby added to Article 93 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title
"Testamentary Law," to be designated section 108A, to follow
immediately after section 108, and to read -as follows:

SEC. 108A. Whenever any person, resident or non-resident
of the State of Maryland, shall hereafter die testate or intestate,
leaving one or more parcels of real estate in this State, but not
leaving personal estate therein as far as may be known, it shall
be lawful for the Orphans' Court of the county or city in which
such real estate, or any part or parcel thereof, may be situate,
to grant letters testamentary or of administration on the estate
of such decedent, and the Court may direct notice to be given
by publication to all resident or non-resident creditors of such
decedent, to file in said Court their claims against said dece-
dent, which notice shall be substantially as provided in section
108 of this article, and the provisions of sections 109 to 113,
inclusive, of this article shall apply. No purchaser of such
real estate shall be required to accept title thereto unless such
notice has been given as is authorized by this section and until
the period for the filing of such claims has expired; and no
claim not filed within the period specified by such notice to
creditors shall thereafter be asserted against such real estate
in the hands of a purchaser for value. The bond required upon