14 LAWS OF ' MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 96.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 16, title "Chancery, "

sub-title "Non-Residents, " of the Code of Public General Laws

of Maryland, 1904, to be inserted after Section 124, Article

16, and to be known as Section 124A.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That a
new section be added to Article 16 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, 1904, to be inserted after Section 124,
Article 16, and to be known as Section 124A, and to read as
follows:

SEC. 124A. In all cases where a bill in chancery may be filed
for the sale, lease, mortgage or other disposition of land or to
affect any funds which would descend as real estate, and the
owner of the whole or of any part thereof or of any interest
therein, whether resident or non-resident, is dead, and it is not
known to the complainant or complainants in said bill whether
or not said deceased person or persons left any heirs, or, if
there are such heirs, who they are or whether they be residents
of this State, or non-residents, the said heirs may in such bill
of complaint be described as the unknown heirs of such de-
ceased person or persons, and the said bill of complaint shall
pray that they be proceeded against as non-residents. In all
such cases the order of publication shall issue as of course,
in the manner now, or which may be hereafter prescribed by
law, for the issuance of the order of publication against non-
residents, and shall be published and the publication thereof
proved as in cases of order of publication against non-resi-
dents. When such order of publication shall have been issued
and published as aforesaid, all persons who may be the heirs
at law of such deceased person or persons, whether they be resi-
dents or non-residents, shall be bound by the decree which may
be passed by the Court in said case, and all the right, title and
interest in said land, or in said fund, owned by said decedent
shall pass and be divested in the decree that may be passed in
said cause.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 18, 1908.

CHAPTER 242.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 16 of the Code of 1904
of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Chancery, " sub-
title "Partition, " to be known as Section 129A.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and hereby is added to Article 16