LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 255.

AN ACT to repeal Section 143 «f Article 93 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled " Testamentary
Law," sub-title " Distribution," and to re-enact the same, so
as to read as follows :

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 143 of Article 93 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled " Testamentary Law," sub-
title " Distribution," be, and tlfe same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

Repeal.

193. 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 sum-
mons 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 pro-
vided, 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 person or persons interested as dis-
tributees, 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 afore-
said, made under the direction and control of the court, shall
protect and indemnify the administrator or executor acting in
obedience to it.

Meeting of
legatees,

etc.