ART. 90]

SURETIES.

1969

ARTICLE XC

SURETIES.

Counter Security. 1. When sureties of executor or ad- ministrator may procure counter security. 2. Orphans' court may call on execu- tors or administrators to give new security, may revoke letters for failure to give. 3. Sureties of guardians may call for counter security; court may re- quire It to be given. 4. Sureties of trustees may call for counter security; court may re- move trustee for failure to give. 5. Sureties of clerks or registers may apply for counter security; pro- ceedings upon such application; penalty for failure to give

6. Petition for relief from liability of a surety... 7-8. Release of sureties; failure to file new bond- Completion of Collections of Sheriffs and Collectors of Taxes. 9. Court may appoint trustee to com- plete collections of sheriff, deputy sheriff and collector, when. 10. Injunction may also issue for pro- tection of sureties, and receiver be appointed in such cases. 11. Court may compel delivery of books and papers to such trustee or re- ceiver. 12. Sections 9-11 shall apply to execu- tors and administrators of said officers.

Counter Security.

1904, art. 90, sec. 1. 1888, art. 90, sec. 1. 1860, art. 91, sec. 1. 1818, ch. 217,
sec. 1. 1829, ch. 216, sec. 1.

1. If any security or any counter security of an executor or admin-
istrator, or any person interested in the estate of any such security or
counter security, shall conceive himself in danger of suffering from the
securityship, he may apply to the orphans' court which granted the
administration, and the said court may require the party to give counter
security, to be approved by the court; and if the party when so required
shall not, within a reasonable time fixed by the court, give such counter
security, the court may revoke his letters and appoint a new adminis-
trator; and if the administrator whose letters are revoked shall not,
within a reasonable time to be fixed by the court, deliver over to such
new administrator all the property of the decedent remaining in his

As to surety companies, see art. 23, sec. 106, et seq., and art 23, sec. 378, et seq.;
as to the service of process upon surety companies, see art. 23, sections 87 and 92.

As to the rights of a surety who pays a debt or Judgment against his princi-
pal, see art. 8, sec. 5, et seq.

As to when the premiums on surety bonds are included in the taxable costs,
see art. 24, sec. 10. As to the payment for surety bonds furnished the county
commissioners, see art. 25, sec. 19.