588 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93

child of a brother or sister, the surviving husband or widow, as
the case may be, shall have one half.

1898, ch. 331.

123. The surplus, exclusive of the share of the surviving
husband or widow, as the case may be, or the whole surplus, (if
there be no surviving husband or widow, ) shall go as follows:

1896, ch. 255.

143. Any administrator or executor shall be entitled to
appoint a meeting of persons entitled to distributive shares or
legacies, or a residue of a decedent's estate, on some day by the
orphans' court named and appointed, on petition, and distribution
or payment may be then and there made under the court's direc-
tion and control, subject, however, to such adjournments from
time to time as the court shall deem proper to order; and where
the parties in interest are known and reside in the State of
Maryland they may be notified under order of court by summons
issued to any county in the State; and when they are non-resi-
dents of the State and are known, they may be notified under
order of court by published notice, as hereinafter~pRmd. ed, of
the day of meeting as aforesaid, and the object of it; and when
the places of residence of the persons in interest are unknown,
or when the parties in interest are unknown, or when it is not
known whether the persons in interest be actually living or dead,
they may be proceeded against as non-residents, and in all cases
when the parties are non-residents, or may be proceeded against
as non-residents, as aforesaid, the court may order notice to be
given by publication in one or more newspapers, stating the
time and purpose of the meeting, and warning such person
or persons if known, and all persons interested as distributees,
legatees or otherwise, in the residue of the decedent's estate, to
be and appear in person, by guardian, solicitor or agent, on or
before the day named in such order for distribution or payment,
and such notice shall be published as the court shall direct, not
less than once a week for four successive weeks, thirty days
before the day named in such notice for distribution and payment
to be made; and distribution and payment as aforesaid, made
under the direction and control of the court, shall protect and
indemnify the administrator or executor acting in obedience to it.