476 ARTICLE 16.

An. Code, sec. 106. 1904, sec. 102. 1888, sec. 91. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 7.
109. The courts of equity in this State shall not hear, try, determine
or give relief in any cause, matter or thing wherein the original debt or
damages does not amount to twenty dollars.

This section applied to suits to restrain the collection of taxes. Smith v. Wells,
106 Md. 528; Kenneweg v. Allegany County, 102 Md. 129; Kuenzel v. Baltimore,
93 Md. 751; Reynolds v. Howard, 3 Md. Ch. 333.

This section applied in a building association case. Pentz v. Citizens' Fire Ins.
Co., 35 Md. 81.

An. Code, sec; 107. 1904, sec. 103. 1888, sec. 92. 1868, ch. 211. 1888, ch. 369.

110. In any case in which a burial ground has ceased to be used for
burial purposes, and the said ground has been dedicated and used for
burial purposes, and lots have been sold therein, and deeds executed or
certificates issued to purchasers thereof, and it shall be considered desirable
to dispose of said burial ground for other purposes, upon a bill being filed
in any of the circuit courts of the State, in equity, in the city or county
in which said burial ground is situated, setting forth the aforegoing facts,
and containing the names of the lot owners or their assignees so far as
known, the court shall order notice by publication in one or more news-
papers published in the county or city where such burial ground is situated,
warning all the lot holders or other persons in interest, residents or non-
residents, adults or infants, to appear in court on or before the day fixed
in said notice, to show cause why the relief - prayed for should not be
granted; and said notice shall be such as the court may direct, not less,
however, than once a week for four successive weeks two months before the
day fixed by such order for the appearance of the parties; and upon a fail-
ure of appearance by any of said lot owners, or any party in interest by the
time limited in said notice, the court may order testimony to be taken
ex parte, according to the usual course in equity in cases of default for non-
appearance ; and upon testimony taken in the cause ex parte, or otherwise,
if it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the court, that it is expedient
or would be to the interest and advantage of the parties concerned that the
said burial ground should be sold, the court may forthwith pass a decree
for the sale of said ground upon such terms and notice as it shall deem
proper, and shall distribute the proceeds of sale among the parties interested
according to their several interests, as the same shall be shown to the court;
and before making said distribution the court may order and direct that so
much and such part of said proceeds of sale, as shall be necessary for the
purpose, shall be set aside and applied to the removal and burial of any dead
that may lie in said burial ground, in the purchase of a lot in any cemetery,
graveyard, or other appropriate place of sepulture, and in the expense of
disinterment and re-interment of said dead; and any decree passed in a
proceeding for a sale of a burial ground, as hereinbefore provided for, shall
be valid to pass to the purchaser or purchasers of said burial ground the
title of the same free, clear and discharged of, and from the claims of the
corporation or trustees who may hold the same, their successors or assigns,
and of all persons in interest as lot holders in such ground, whether they are