ART. 50. ] SETTLEMENT OP DECEDENTS' ESTATES.

and sequestration of property, and may also direct the administra-
tion bond of such executor or administrator to be put in suit.

445

69. The several Orphans' Courts may call upon any executor
or administrator to whom they may respectively have granted ad-
ministration, to give new security, approved by said courts, and
if such executor or administrator shall refuse or neglect to give such
new security within a fixed reasonable time, the court may revoke
his letters and appoint a new administrator, if the executor or ad-

Id s 2
1807, c 136 s 3.
Court may
require admin-
istrator to give
new security.

ministrator whose letters have been revoked shall refuse or neglect,
in a reasonable time after demand, to deliver over to such new ad-
ministrator the property of his decedent in his hands unadminis-

Revocation on
failure.

tered, the court may compel the same by attachment and sequestra-
tion, and may direct his administration bond to be put in suit.

Bond may be
put in suit

ADMINISTRATION AND REVOCATION OS LETTERS.

70. Whenever any person hath died intestate, leaving in this
State personal estate, letters of administration may forthwith be
granted by the Orphans' Court of the county wherein was the party's
mansion-house or residence; or in case he had no mansion or resi-
dence within the State, letters shall be granted in the county where
the party died; and 111 case the party neither had mansion or resi-
dence, nor died within this State, letters may he granted in the
county wherein lies, or is supposed to he, a considerable part of the
party's personal estate.

Art 93, s 14.
1798, c 101,
sub-c 5, s 2,
1865, c. 162
Administration,
where to be
granted
4 Md 175, 8 Md
387, 11 Md 387,
14 Md 106, 17
Md 102, 4, 0, 520,
34 Md 450

71. Nevertheless, whenever any person dying, leaving in this
State property subject to administration, the said letters of admin-
istration shall be granted in the county wherein was the mansion-
house or residence of the deceased; provided, he had such lying in
said county.

1865, c 162, s 6
In what county
administration
granted
43 Md 291.

Proviso.

72. Administration may be granted to two or more persons with
the consent of the person first entitled; provided, that administra-
tion in all cases shall extend to all the personal property of the de-
cedent within the State.

Art 93, s 15.

1798, c 101,

sub-c 5, s 25
Granted to two
or more
Proviso

73. It shall be incumbent on the person applying for adminis-
tration, to prove such dying intestate to the satisfaction of the court,
unless ths same be notorious; and the court may examine such per-
son on oath touching the time, place, and manner of the death, and
whether or not the party dying left any will; and if such dying in-
testate be not proved to the satisfaction of the court, no adminis-
tration shall be granted. No such administration shall be granted
until at least twenty days after the death of the supposed intestate,
and at least seven days after application therefor.

Id s 16
1798, c 101,
sub-c 3, s 3
Persons apply-
ing for adminis-
tration to prove
intestacy
4 Md 173, 14
Md 169. 44 Md.
625.

74. The qualifications of an administrator shall, in all respects,
be the same as herein prescribed for an executor, and all questions
touching such qualifications shall be tried and determined by the
same proofs and in like manner.

Id 8 17
1708, e 101,
sub-c 5, B 7
Qualifications of
administrator
34 Md 450.