120 INHERITANCE. [ART. 47.

ARTICLE XLVII.

Inheritance

DESCENTS.
30. Illegitimate children.

DESCENTS.

1868, c. 199 repeals section 30 and re-enacts the same as follows:

1838, c. 199. Illegitimate children.

SEC. 30. The illegitimate child or children of any female, and the issue of any snch illegitimate child or children shall be able and capable in law to take and inherit both real and personal estate from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each other, as the case may be, and where such illegitimate child or children shall die, leaving no descendants, or brothers or sisters, or the descendants of such brothers and sisters, then and in that case, the mother of such illegitimate child or children, if living, shall inherit both real and personal estate from such illegitimate child or children, and if the mother be dead, then and in that case, the heirs at law of the mother shall in- herit the real and personal estate of snch illegitimate child or children in like manner as if such illegitimate child or children had been in lawful wedlock. In force and approved March 28, 1868.

NOTE —Public General Laws, Art 03, sec 135 is identical with the former sec. 30 of this
article and should be repealed to conform to 1868, c. 199. The word " born " Is omitted in
1868, c. 19B in last line, as above.