522 ARTICLE 16.

shall be established; or the said court may require said fiduciary to hold
or transfer and deliver to a trustee or receiver to be appointed by it the
share or shares to which such unknown person or persons would be entitled
if in existence to be held, and the income thereof accumulated for such time
as the said court may direct, in order to afford full opportunity for such
unknown person or persons to appear and assert their rights, and may
order the delivery or distribution thereof whenever said unknown persons
shall appear and establish their rights thereto, or when it shall be con-
vinced that there are no unknown persons entitled to any share of said
property; and the said court may defer the passage of the said decree from
time to time if it shall deem it necessary in cases of doubt as to the existence
of persons who may be entitled, but the discretion of the said court as to
requiring bond and deferring the passage of said decree and withholding
and accumulating shares shall be subject to review by the court of appeals;
and any fiduciary making distribution or delivery of any property in
obedience to such decree or order shall be protected from any claim in
respect thereof by such unknown person or persons, his, her or their heirs,
personal representatives or assigns.

As to the payment of debts and distribution by administrators under the jurisdic-
tion of the orphans' court, see art. 93, secs. 122 and 148.

An. Code, sec. 211. 1906, ch. 373.

226. 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 pro-
cess 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.

An. Code, sec. 212. 1906, ch. 373.

227. 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.

An. Code, sec. 213. 1906, ch. 373.

228. 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.

An. Code, sec. 214. 1908, ch. 69.

229. Nothing in sections 225 to 228 of this article shall in any manner
affect the rights of any person or persons who may have become entitled