192 ARTICLE 16.

3931, ch. 453.

268A. Courts of Equity within this State shall have full jurisdiction to
enforce trusts for charitable purposes, upon suit of the State by the
Attorney General or upon the suit of any person or persons having an
interest in the enforcement thereof; and as to all trusts hereafter created
for charitable purposes, whether by gift, deed, will or other form of settle-
ment, and whether the subject thereof be real or personal property, it
shall be no objection to the validity or enforceability of such trusts or of
such gift, deed, bequest, devise, etc., that the beneficiaries of such trust,
constitute an indefinite class or that such trusts or the limitations under
such settlement are limited to extend for a perpetual or indefinite period.
"Charitable purposes" under this section shall include all such purposes
as are within either the spirit or letter of the Statute of 43 Elizabeth Ch. 4
(1601), commonly known as the statute of charitable uses.

Cited but not construed in Board of Home Missions v. Lynch, Daily Record,
January 24, 1935.

Witnesses and Testimony.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 269. 1912, sec. 252. 1901, sec. 234. 1888, sec. 216.
Rule 34. 1929, ,ch. 489.

269. Except where testimony is to be taken beyond the limits of the-
State, or beyond the limits of the county or city for which the Court
exercises jurisdiction, no commissions to take testimony shall issue. The
Circuit Court for each of the counties, and the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City shall each appoint two or three experienced and competent ex-
aminers, who shall, upon qualification, be officers of the Court; and for any
special reason, a special examiner may be appointed; provided that the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George's County may appoint four such examiners.
These examiners shall have authority to issue subpoenas for witnesses, ad-
minister oaths, notify parties of the time of their sittings, and to preserve
order and decorum during their sessions. Any person refusing to obey
subpoenas issued by such examiners, or who shall be guilty of violating the
order and proper decorum of the sessions of said examiners while in the
discharge of their duties shall be reported by the examiners, together with
the facts of the case, to the Court; and upon hearing, the Court, if satis-
fied of the facts as reported, and that the party was guilty of the matter
changed, shall punish the party so offending. Such examiners shall be
entitled to receive four dollars per day, for each and every day actually
employed; to be paid by the party at whose instance the service may have
been rendered. And it shall be the duty of such examiners, in making
their returns to the Court, in each case, to certify the time that they have
been actually employed, and at whose instance, and the amount taxable
to each party for services rendered.