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1906, ch, 373.

211. Whenever any fiduciary shall have property to distribute or
deliver, and there shall be persons entitled to shares thereof, or whose
rights therein will be affected by such distribution or delivery, and
such persons shall be known to such fiduciary to be in existence, but it
shall not be known to said fiduciary whether said persons are residents
of this State or not, or if residents of this State where they may be
served with the process of the court, they may, by special leave of the
court upon good cause shown, be proceeded against as non-residents;
and if their names be not known to such fiduciary, they may be described
as nearly as practicable.

1906, ch. 373.

212. The said court may assign counsel to protect the interest of
such supposed unknown person or persons known to exist whose names
or places of residence are unknown, and that the fees of such counsel
shall be fixed by the court, and be paid out of said property or such
part thereof as the court shall determine ought to bear the same.

1906, ch. 373.

213. The three preceding sections shall not be interpreted as a
repeal or construction of existing law, or of the jurisdiction and powers
of courts of equity, and the remedy hereby provided is intended to be
additional to and not in substitution for any other existing remedy.

1908, ch. 69.

214. Nothing in sections 210 to 213 of this article shall in any man-
ner affect the rights of any person or persons who may have become
entitled to property in the hands of any trustee, executor, administrator,
receiver or other fiduciary prior to the third day of April, 1906, being
the day of the passage of said sections, and who prior to said third day
of April, 1906, shall have filed in any court of competent jurisdiction
any bill or petition for the transfer, delivery or distribution property
so in hands of any such fiduciary.

1904, art. 16, sec. 201 1900, ch. 73, sec, 186 B.

215. It shall not be necessary for the answer or any other pleadings
of a corporation to be under the corporate seal.

1908, ch. 661.

216. Whenever in any proceeding in a court of equity a decree for
the payment of costs or any other decree for the payment of money is
made by the court against a plaintiff, the clerk shall forthwith index
the name of such plaintiff in a separate index, to be known as Index
of Plaintiffs, and no lien under such decree shall arise against the real
or leasehold property of such plaintiff, and no right of execution on
such decree shall accrue until the name of such plaintiff is so indexed.
As to decrees between co-defendants, Bee sec. 183.