576 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 291
CHAPTER 291.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 225 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924, entitled
"Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Inventory, " authorizing
the removal of an administrator for failing to file an in-
ventory or administration account.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 225 of Article 93 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924,
entitled "Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Inventory, " be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

225. If an administrator or executor shall not render
the first administration account as required by law, or shall
not within three months after the date of his letters,
exhibit to the Orphans' Court an inventory as aforesaid,
a summons returnable within not less than eight nor more
than thirty days, may, ex officio, or on the application of a
'person interested, be issued against such administrator or
executor, to show cause wherefore such inventory has not
been exhibited or such administration account has not been
rendered; and if the summons be duly returned "sum-
moned, " or upon two citations returned "non est" by the
sheriff of the county wherein the party resided at the time
of obtaining his letters, or of the county wherein the let-
ters were obtained, in case the party does not re-
side in the State, and if he does not appear at the
return of the summons, or appearing, shall not show cause
satisfactory, the court may immediately enter on its pro-
ceedings and record that the letters be revoked, and may
proceed to grant other letters in the same manner as if
such executor had not been named in the will, or as if such
administrator was not in existence; and the power of such
executor or administrator shall thereupon cease, and he
shall be bound to deliver up, on demand, to the person ob-
taining such letters, all the property of the decedent in his
hands, or be liable to be sued by such person on his ad-
ministration bond, and the Court may pass an order for the
purpose.

SEC, 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1935.

Approved May 17, 1935.