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where the heirs or devisees are residents or non-residents, or are
of full age or infants, or of sound mind or non compos mentis,
and to cases where the parties left no heirs or where it is not
known whether he left heirs or devisees, or if the heirs or devi-
sees be unknown, and if there be no heirs, the State's attorney
shall appear to the bill.

Van Bibber B. Reese, 71 Md. 611. Hardesty v. Hardesty, 77 Md. 180.
Mc Niece v. Eliason, 78 Md. 176.

Trustee.

1892, ch. 241.

205. Every trustee to whom any estate, real, personal or mixed,
shall be limited or conveyed for the benefit of creditors, or to be
sold for any other purpose, shall file with the clerk of the court
in which the deed or instruments creating the trusts may be
recorded a bond in such penalty as the clerk may prescribe, being
as nearly as can be ascertained, double the amount of the whole
trust estate, and with sureties to be approved by the clerk, con-
ditioned for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in such
trustee, which bond shall be retained and recorded in the office of
said clerk; but when the sale is to be made in a contingency, no
bond need be given until the contingency happens, but no title
shall pass to any trustee as aforesaid until such bond shall be
filed and approved as aforesaid, and no sale made by any such
trustee, without such bond, shall be valid or pass any title to
such property or estate. If real and personal property or real
property be situate partly in the county or city in which the
grantor resides and partly in one or more other counties, it shall
be sufficient that a bond has been accepted and filed in the county
of the grantor's residence. If the trust estate consists entirely of
real estate in a county or counties other than of the residence of
the grantor, it shall be sufficient that a bond has been accepted
and filed in the county in which the deed has been first recorded.

Stiefel v. Barton, 73 Md. 408. Gans v. Carter, 77 Md. 1. Fidelity &
Deposit Co. v. Haines, 78 Md. 454. White v. Pittsburg Bank, 80 Md. 5.
Moore v. Title Co., 82 Md. 289.

1894, ch. 580.

213. A trustee in the State of Maryland, either by deed or
will, or by appointment by order of the circuit court of Balti-
more city, or by any court in this State having equity juris-