ART. 93] DISTRIBUTION—GUARDIAN AND WARD. 2001

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-residents of the State and are known, they
may be notified under order of court by published notice, as
hereinafter provided, 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 publi-
cation 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.

Conner v. Ogle, 4 Md. Ch. 425. Scott 11. Fox, 14 Md. 388. Donaldson's
Exrs, v Raborg's Admx., 26 Md. 312—28 Md. 34. Jones v. Jones, 36 Md
495. Smith v. Stockbridge, 39 Md. 640. Wilson v. McCarty, 55 Md. 277.
Biddison v. Mosely, 57 Md 89. Wood v. Conroy, 62 Md. 542. Shrivel v
State, 65 Md. 278. Hoffman v. Hoffman, 88 Md. 62.

Guardian and Ward.

1888, art. 93, sec. 144. 1860, art. 93, sec. 144. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 12,
sec. 1. 1807, ch. 136, sec. 4. 1829, ch. 216, sec. 5. 1834, ch.

291, sec. 1. 1888, ch. 446.

143. Whenever land shall descend or be devised to a male
under the age of twenty-one years, or to a female under the age
of eighteen years, or any such male or female shall be entitled
to a distributive share of the personal estate of any intestate,
or to a legacy or bequest under a last will or codicil, or may
acquire any real or personal property or estate by gift or by
purchase, and the said male or female shall not have a guardian
appointed by last will and testament, agreeably to law, the
orphans' court of the county in which such infant shall reside