1296 SURETIES—COUNTER SECURITY. [ART. 90.

ARTICLE XC.

SURETIES.

Counter Security. 1. When sureties of executor or ad- ministrator may procure counter security. 2. Orphans' court may call on execu- tors or administrators to give new security; may revoke letters for failure to give. 3. Sureties of guardians may call for counter security; court may re- quire it to be given. 4. Sureties of trustees may call for counter security; court may re- move trustee for failure to give 6. Sureties of clerks or registers may apply for counter security, pro-

ceedings upon such application; penalty for failure to give. Completion of Collections of Sheriffs and Collectors of Taxes. 6. Court may appoint trustee to com- plete collections of sheriff, dep- uty sheriff and collector, when. 7. Injunction may also issue for pro- tection of sureties, and receiver be appointed in such cases. 8. Court may compel delivery of books and papers to such trustee or re- ceiver. 9. Sections 6-8 shall apply to execu- tors and administrators of said officers.

Counter Security.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 91, sec. 1. 1818, ch. 217, sec. 1. 1829, ch 216, sec. 1.
1. If any security or any counter security of an executor or
administrator, or any person interested in the estate of any such
security or counter security, shall conceive himself in danger of suf-
fering from the securityship, he may apply to the orphans's court,
which granted the administration, and the said court may require
the party to give counter security, to be approved by the court;
and if the party when so required shall not, within a reasonable
time fixed by the court, give such counter security, the court
may revoke his letters and appoint a new administrator; and if
the administrator whose letters are revoked shall not, within a
reasonable time to be fixed by the court, deliver over to such new
administrator all the property of the decedent remaining in his
hands unadministered, and also all the books, bonds, notes and
evidences of debt, which belong to or are due to the decedent, or
which have been taken by him as executor or administrator since
the death of the decedent, in his possession, and also pay over to
such new administrator all the money due by him as executor or