ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1345

CHAPTER 712.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 16 of the
Annotated Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland, title
"Chancery," sub-title "Non Compos Mentis," said addi-
tional section to follow immediately after Section 123 of
said Article and to be known as Section 123-A, said addi-
tional section relating to payments to committees of non-
resident lunatics.

Be it enacted by the Gewral Assembly of Maryland, That
an additional section be and the same is hereby added to
Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Public Civil Laws of
Maryland, title "Chancery," sub-title "Non Compos Mentis,"
said additional section to follow immediately after Section 123
of said Article and to be known as Section 123-A, and to read
as follows, viz :

123-A. If any non-resident non compos mentis, declared to
be such by a Court of competent jurisdiction in the State,
District or Territory of the United States in which such non
compos mentis resides, shall be entitled to any legacy, bequest
or distributive share or to the proceeds of any sale made under
a decree of a court of equity, or to any money or property in
the hands of a trustee appointed by will or deed, or any prop-
erty in the hands of any executor or administrator in this
State, and such non compos mentis has a committee or guard-
ian regularly appointed where he or she resides, such foreign
committee may upon application by petition to the proper
Court in this State obtain an order for the payment, transfer,
or delivery of such proceeds, legacy, bequest or distributive
share by such trustee, administrator, executor or other
fiduciary ; provided the petition of such foreign committee shall
set forth the entire amount of the property of such non com-
pos mentis, including property in this State of such non com-
pos mentis, and shall be accompanied by duly authenticated
copies of the decree adjudicating such person a non compos
mentis, and of such committee appointment and qualification
and of the bond or other security given by such committee, and
shall be verified by affidavit and the sufficiency of the security
shall be certified to by the chief clerk or prothonatory of the
Court by which said security was taken; and provided further
that the Court is satisfied of the truth of the facts set forth
in such petition and of the sufficiency of such security.

Approved April 16, 1920.