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"business" shall include business, profession, occupation and
calling of every kind.

SEC, 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 518.

AN ACT to add a new section to be known as Number 117A, to
Article 16, title "Chancery, " Bagby's Code of the Public
General Laws, Edition of 1924, sub-title "Non Compos
Mentis, " to follow immediately after Section 117 defining the
powers of Courts of Equity in Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
16 of Bagby's Code of the Public General Laws, Edition of 1924,
title "Chancery, " sub-title "Non Compos Mentis, " said new
new section to be known as 117A to follow immediately after
Section 117 of said Article, and to read as follows:

117A. The Court shall have power also to appoint a Com-
mittee or Trustee to take charge of and manage the property
of any person incompetent by reason of a mental disability.

The Application therefor, may be made by next friend, shall
be by petition under oath, accompanied by certificates, sworn
to and subscribed by two medical doctors practicing in the State
of Maryland, for the last five years or two attending neuro-
psychiatrists, one of whom shall have attended the alleged in-
competent within the ten days before the filing of the petition.

Such certificates shall set out the cause, nature, extent and
probable duration of the incompetency. The petition shall set
out the reasons for the application and the kind, quantity and
value of the property to be cared for and managed. The Court
shall pass an order, (a) directing the alleged incompetent to be
summoned within ten days, (b) requiring that within the same
time a copy of the summons, petition and order shall be left
with the person with whom the alleged incompetent resides, un-
less residing with the petitioner, in which event, the Court shall
name some other person with whom such copies shall be left.
(c) setting the petition for hearing on or after fifteen days from
the date of the order, (d) and allowing an appearance and
answer at any time before or after decree. The Court shall have