1478 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 591

real estate in Maryland, but 110 personal estate therein, and
for notice to creditors, and relating to the title of such real
estate and the rights of purchasers and creditors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 109A of Article 93 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, title, "Testamentary Law, " sub-title, ''Debts, "
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

109A. Whenever any person, resident or non-resident of
the State of Maryland, shall hereafter die testate or intestate,
leaving one or more parcels of real estate in this State, but not
leaving personal estate therein as far as may be known, it
shall be lawful for the Orphans' Court of the county or city
in which such real estate, or any part or parcel thereof, may
be situate, to grant letters testamentary or of administration
on the estate of such decedent, and the Court may direct notice
to be given by publication to all resident or non-resident cred-
itors of such decedent to file in said Court their claims against
said decedent, which notice shall be substantially as provided
in Section 109 of this Article, and the provisions of Sections
110 to 114, inclusive, of this Article shall apply. No pur-
chaser of such real estate shall be required to accept title there-
to unless such notice has been given as is authorized by this
Section and until the period for the filing of such claims has
expired; and no claim not filed within the period specified by
such notice to creditors shall thereafter be asserted against
such real estate in the hands of a purchaser for value. The
bond required upon the grant of letters shall be in such pen-
alty as the Court may prescribe. In case any such real estate
is sold by a Court of Chancery on a bill of sale for the purpose
of partition, the said Court may, in its decree for sale, provide
for a notice to creditors not exceeding ninety days, which no-
tice shall be in lieu of the notice above required, and upon the
giving of this notice by the trustee appointed by the Court
and upon the expiration of the ninety days provided for by
the notice to creditors aforesaid, the purchaser of such real
estate shall be required to accept title thereto, and no claim
not filed within the period specified by such notice shall there-
after be asserted against such real estate in the hands of the

purchaser at such sale, or his heirs or assigns.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take

effect June 1, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.