2810 ARTICLE 90.

ARTICLE 90.

SURETIES.

Counter Security. 1. When sureties of executor or adminis- trator may procure counter security. 2. Orphans' court may call on executors or administrators to give new securi- ty, may revoke letters for failure to give. 3. Sureties of guardians may call for coun- ter security; court may require it to be given. 4. Sureties of trustees may call for counter security; court may remove trustee for failure to give. 5. Sureties of clerks or registers may ap- ply for counter security; proceedings upon such application; penalty for failure to give. 6. Petition for relief from liability of surety. 7-8. Release of sureties; failure to file new bond.

9. State depository; collateral security in lieu of surety bond. Completion of Collections of Sheriffs and Collectors of Taxes. 10. Court may appoint trustee to com- plete collections of sheriff, deputy sheriff and collector, when. 11. Injunction may also issue for protec- tion of sureties, and receiver be ap- pointed in such cases. 12. Court may compel delivery of books and papers to such trustee or re- ceiver. 13. Secs. 10-12 shall apply to executors and administrators of said officers. Bonds to State to Protect Sub- Contractors. 14. For labor and materials; provisos.

Counter Security.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, 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 admin-
istration, 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 administrator; 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 hands unadministered, and also

As to the rights of a surety who pays a debt or judgment against his principal, see
art. 8, sec. 5, et seq.

As to when premiums on surety bonds are included in taxable costs, see art. 24, sec. 10.

As to payment for surety bonds furnished county commissioners, see art. 25, sec. 20.

As to surety, casualty, liability and compensation insurance, see art. 48A, sec. 104,
et seq.