ART. 93.] FOREIGN EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS. 1341
die possessed of or entitled to any of the public stocks or debts
created or issued upon the credit of this State, or of the stock or
debt created or issued upon the credit of the city of Baltimore, or
of the capital stock of any joint stock company incorporated by
the authority of this State, or of any national bank in this State,
his right or title thereto shall devolve on his executor or admin-
istrator, duly constituted and appointed as such by the law of the
State, district, territory or country wherein he may have resided
at the time of his death, in the same manner as if the said
executor or administrator had been duly constituted and appointed
as such by the proper authority in this State.
P. G. L , (1860,) art 93, sec. 78. 1839, ch. 41, sec. 2. 1849, ch. 447, sec. 2.
1874, ch. 483, sec. 104.
78. Nothing contained in the preceding section shall deprive
the courts of this State of their authority to grant administration
on the estate of such deceased person, and the right of a person
so appointed shall be preferred to the right of the foreign execu-
tor or administrator; provided, notice of the claim of the domes-
tic executor or administrator to such stock be given to the proper
officer having charge of the stock book wherein such stock is en-
tered, and having authority to make or allow a transfer thereof
before any sale or transfer thereof has actually been made by the
foreign executor or administrator; and provided further, that ad-
ministration shall not be granted to any one in this State, except
the next of kin, residuary legatee, or a creditor who shall make
oath to and exhibit the vouchers of his claim before obtaining ad-
ministration.
Dalrymple v. Gamble, 66 Md. 298.
Ibid. sec. 79. 1839, ch. 41, sec. 3. 1849, ch. 447, sec. 3. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 105.
79. No such foreign executor or administrator shall be author-
ized to transfer any such stock until after he shall have given at
least one month's notice by advertisement published twice a week
for four weeks in two daily newspapers of the city of Baltimore,
stating therein the death of his testator or intestate, and the
amount and description of stock intended to be transferred.
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