1384 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

after his administering upon the estate; but nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed to render an administrator answerable
for not making a return of the inventory aforesaid, when it
shall appear to the court that he has been prevented from making
such return by the improper detention of the goods of the
deceased by the collector.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 215 1708, ch. 101, sub-ch. 6, sec. 18.

215. If an executor or administrator shall not, within three
months after the date of his letters, exhibit to the orphans' court
an inventory as aforesaid, a summons returnable within not less
than eight or more than thirty days, may, ex officio, or on the
application of a person interested, be issued against such adminis-
trator, to show cause wherefore such inventory hath not been
exhibited; and if the summons be duly returned, " summoned,"
or upon two citations returned "non est" by the sheriff of the
county wherein the party resided at the time of obtaining his
letters, or of the county wherein the letters were obtained, in
case the party doth not reside in the State, and if he doth not
appear at the return of the summons, or appearing, shall not
show cause satisfactory, the court may immediately enter on its
proceedings and record that the letters be revoked, and may
proceed to grant other letters in the same manner as if such
executor had not been named in the will, or as if such adminis-
trator was not in existence; and the power of such executor or
administrator shall thereupon cease, and he shall be bound to
deliver up, on demand, to the person obtaining such letters, all
the property of the decedent in his hands, or be liable to be used
by such person on his administration bond, and the court may
pass an order for the purpose.

Ibid. sec. 216. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 6, sec. 14.

216. If there be more than one administrator named in the
letters, any one or more of them, on the neglect of the rest, may
return an inventory, and the administrator so neglecting shall not
thereafter interfere with the administration, or have any power
over the personal estate of the decedent; but the administrator so
returning shall thereafter have the whole administration, unless
within two months after the return the delinquent or delinquents