1136 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 458

to the discharge of just and legally proven claims shall be
answerable for any claim of which he had no notice; provided,
that at least six months before he shall make distribution
amongst creditors or persons entitled, he shall have caused to
be inserted in as many newspapers as the Orphans' Court or
the Register of Wills shall direct, an advertisement as follows,
or fully to the following effect, viz: "This is to give notice
that the subscriber........................................... hath obtained

from the Orphans' Court of.................................. County, in

Maryland, letters testamentary (or of administration) on the
personal estate of..................................................... late of

.............................. deceased. All persons having claims

against the deceased are warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or
before the....................... day of............................ next; they

may otherwise by Jaw be excluded from all benefit of said
estate. Given tinder my hand this........................ day of

.............................. " And it is also further provided that

in all cases in which there are two or more administrations, of
whatever kind, upon the estate of a decedent and in which the
said notice to creditors in the manner and form aforesaid shall
have been given by any administrator or executor of said dece-
dent, no further notice to creditors shall be required; and after
the expiration of such notice so given, the provisions of this
section shall inure to the benefit of any and all subsequent
administrators and executors.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 458.

AN ACT to extend for a period of four years from January
1st, 1924, the exemption from taxation of property held by
any hospital or asylum for future use, provided for in Sec-
tion 4-B of Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland, said section having been enacted by Chapter
201 of the Acts of 1918, and amended by Chapter 390 of
the Acts of 1920 of the General Assembly of Maryland, and
also amended by Chapter J93 of the Acts of 1922 of the
General Assembly of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the exemption provided for in Chapter 201 of the