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SETTLEMENT OF DECEDENTS' ESTATES. [ART. 50.

Id s 64
1798, c 101,

sub-c 3, s 18

Powers and
duties of col-
lector

101. A collector shall collect the goods, chattels, and personal
estate and debts of the deceased, and cause the same to be ap-
praised, and return an inventory thereof in the manner prescribed
for an administrator, and secure the same at such reasonable ex-
pense as the court shall allow, and may under the authority of the
court sell perishable articles; and he may bring suits for debts, or
other property, as an administrator may do, and shall account for
the money or property recovered.

Id s 65
1798. c 101,
sub-c. 3, s 18
Commissions.
47 Md. 659

102, The Orphans' Court may allow a collector a commission
on the property and debts actually collected and afterwards deliv-
ered to the executor or administrator, not exceeding three per cent,
or on the whole inventory not exceeding two per cent.

Id s 66
1798, c 101,
sub-c 3, s 20
Power to cease
on grant of
administration.

103. On granting of letters testamentary or of administration,
the powers of any such collector shall cease; and it shall be his duty
to deliver, on demand, all the property and money of the decedent
in his hands, except as before excepted, to the person obtaining such
letters; and in case of the collector's evading such demand, or re-

How compelled
to relieve prop-
erty of dece-
dent.

fusing or neglecting to deliver according to such demand, made at
a reasonable time and place, either the court may proceed against
him by attachment, and impose a fine not exceeding ten per cent,
on the amount of property in his hands, or his bond may be sued
by the executor or administrator.

ADMINISTRATION DURANTE MINOE1TATE.

Art. 93, s 67.
1798, c 101.
sub-c 3, 20
Administration
durante minori-
tate of executor

104. Administration durante minoritate of an executor may be
granted by the Orphans' Court of the county wherein letters testa-
mentary should be granted, and such administration shall last until
the executor shall attain to the age of eighteen 3 ears.

ADMINISTRATION PENDENTE LITE.

Art 93, s 68
1810, c 34, s 6
Administration
pendente lite
7 Md 282, 35
Md. 280.

103. In all cases where the validity of a will is or shall be con-
tested, letters of administration pending such contest may, at the
discretion of the Orphans' Court, be granted to the person named
executor, or to the person to whom the largest portion of the per-
sonal estate may be bequeathed in such contested will, or to the
person who would be entitled to letters of administration by law, as
in cases of intestacy.

Id s 69
1798, c 101,
sub-c 6, s 5,
1820, c 174, s 2
Grant of letters
to revoke.
7 Md 282, 12
Md 253
Administrator
to set tie account
and deliver up
properly.

100. In all cases where administration durante minoritate, or
pendente lite, shall be granted, the grant of letters testamentary, or
of administration, shall operate as a revocation of such administra-
tion durante minoritate or pendente lite. And upon such revoca-
tion, it shall be the duty of every administrator durante minoritate,
or pendente lite, to exhibit to the Orphans' Court their accounts
without delay, and to deliver to the executor or administrator, on
demand, all the goods, chattels, and personal estate in their posses-

Bond to be sued
on failure

sion belonging to the decedent, and, on failure, their bonds shall
be liable to be put in suit by the executor or administrator; but, all