EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 373.

AN ACT to add four new Sections to Article 16 of the Code
of Public General Laws, title " Chancery," sub-title
"Pleading, Practice and Process," to be known as Sec-
tions 200 A, 200 B, 200 e and 200 D, and to come in after
Section 200 of said Article, providing a method of pro-
cedure by fiduciaries for making distribution or delivery
of property where unknown persons may be entitled, or
the residences of persons known or supposed to be entitled
are unknown, and for protecting the interests of such per-
sons, and for protecting fiduciaries making distribution or
delivery of property.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That four new sections be added to Article 16 of the

CHAP. 373

Code of Public General Laws, title "Chancery," sub-title
"Pleading, Practice and Process," to be known as Sections
200 A, 200 B, 200 C and 200 D, and to come in after Section
200, and to read as follows :

Section 200 A. Whenever it shall be the duty of any
fiduciary (meaning by the term "fiduciary" any trustee,

New sections
added.

executor, administrator, receiver, or other fiduciary) to make
any delivery or distribution of any property in the posses-
sion or control of such fiduciary, and said fiduciary shall
apprehend that there may be persons living unknown to such
fiduciary who may be entitled to shares thereof, or whose
rights will be affected by such distribution or delivery, said
fiduciary may apply by bill or petition to the court of
equity in the county or city in which said fiduciary
resides or has his or its principal office or place of busi-
ness, praying the said court to assume jurisdiction over
the said property and the distribution and delivery thereof,
or if a court of equity already has jurisdiction of said
property, said application may be made to such court. All
persons known to such fiduciary to have any interest in said
property shall be named or described and made parties to
the proceedings, and their interests shall be stated or set
forth, and there shall be a statement in the bill or petition,
by which said application to the court is made, showing why
such fiduciary apprehends that there may be persons living
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May apply to
court to
assume
Jurisdiction
over certain
property, etc