ART. 93.] ACCOUNT. 1315

thereafter an account shall be returned, until the estate shall ap-
pear to be fully administered; and whenever a discovery or receipt
of assets shall take place after rendering an account, another
account shall be rendered within six months thereafter; but an
administrator shall not be obliged to render accounts when it
appears to the court that the estate has been fully administered,
except as to debts which the court shall deem desperate.

Scott v. Fox, 14 Md. 388. Dennis v. Dennis, 15 Md. 127. Scott v. Leary, 34
Md. 389. Jones v. Jones, 41 Md. 354. Biddison v. Moseley, 57 Md. 89. Lev-
ering v. Levering, 64 Md. 399.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 3. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 10, sec. 9. 1881,

ch. 315, sec. 3.

3. If an administrator shall fail to return an account as before
directed within the time limited by law, or within such further
time as the orphans' court shall allow, not exceeding six months,
his letters, on application of any person interested, may be
revoked and administration granted at the discretion of the court;
and the administrator to whom letters may be granted shall be en-
titled to put the delinquent's bond in suit, and to recover such
damages thereon as the jury may find; and in assessing such
damage the jury shall allow such sum as will be equal to six per
centum per annum on the amount of the inventory or inventories,
from the time of the return or returns to the time of the verdict,
over and beyond the damages, for such loss or injury as the estate
may have sustained by the delinquent's conduct.

Ibid.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 10, sec. 1. 1818, ch. 317, sec. 1.

4. In such account shall be stated on one side the assets which
have come to his hands, according to the inventory or inventories
returned to the court or received and appraised as herein directed,
after the inventory or inventories returned, and including therein
the interest that may have been received on sales made under the
authority of the court, and the sales made under the court's
direction; that is to say, the inventory or inventories are to show
the articles of the estate, and the sales, the amount of their value,
where they have been sold; and for articles so sold he shall be
charged the price according to the return; and if any articles
have been sold for credit and not yet paid for, they shall be