ART. 90.] SURETIES—COUNTER SECURITY. 1297
administrator of the decedent, the court may compel the delivery
and payment over by attachment and sequestration of property,
and may also direct the administration bond of such executor or
administrator to be put in suit.
Sifford v. Morrison, 63 Md. 14.
P. G L , (1860,) art. 91, sec. 2. 1807, ch. 136, sec. 3.
2. 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 exec-
utor or administrator whose letters have been revoked shall refuse
or neglect, in a reasonable time after demand, to deliver over to
such new administrator the property of his decedent in his hands
unadministered, the court may compel the same by attachment
and sequestration, and may direct his administration bond to be
put in suit.
Ibid. sec. 3. 1807, ch. 136, sec. 2. 1829, ch. 216, sec. 4.
3. If the security or counter security of a guardian, or any
person interested in the estate of such security or counter security,
shall conceive himself in danger of suffering from the security-
ship, he may apply to the orphans' court by which such guardian
was appointed, or in which he gave bond, and the said court may
call on such guardian to give counter security; and if the said
guardian shall not, within a fixed reasonable time, give such
counter security, the court may revoke his appointment and
appoint a new guardian; and if the guardian whose appointment
is revoked shall refuse or neglect, in a reasonable time after
demand, to deliver to such new guardian the property of the
ward, the said court may compel the same by attachment, and
may direct the bond of such displaced guardian to be put in suit.
Ibid. sec. 4. 1844, ch. 305.
4. Any security or counter security of a trustee appointed by
a court of equity, or any person interested in the estate of such
security or counter security, who is afraid of suffering from the
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