ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 111

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 233 of Article 16 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland (1924 Edition), title
"Chancery, " sub-title "Sales, " be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as
follows:

233. Where any person dies, or shall have died, leaving
any real estate in possession, remainder or reversion, and
not leaving personal estate sufficient to pay his debts and
costs of administration, the court, on any suit instituted by
any of his creditors, or by the executor, administrator or
other personal representative of said decedent, may decree
that all the real estate of such person, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, shall be sold to pay his debts; and the
funeral expenses of the decedent, to be allowed in the dis-
cretion of the court according to the condition and circum-
stances of the deceased, not to exceed three hundred dollars,
except by special order of court, and provided the estate of
the deceased be solvent, shall be considered the debt of said
decedent, and in the distribution of the proceeds arising
from any sale under this section, the claim for funeral ex-
penses shall take priority to all claims of the common
creditors of the deceased. This section to apply to all cases
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 devisees be unknown and if there be no
heirs the State's Attorney shall appear to the bill.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall"
take effect as of June 1st, 1933.

Approved March 16, 1933.

CHAPTER 58.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
175 and 176 of Article 2 of the Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Anne Arundel County, " sub-title "Build-
ing Permits, " relating to the issuing of building permits
in said County outside the city of Annapolis, and pre-
scribing the fees and charges for the same.