HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 845

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 225B and 225C of Article 16 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title
"Chancery", sub-title "Pleadings, Practice and Process",
be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

225B. Whenever any receiver, trustee, executor or
administrator has in hand any funds, payable in cash,
under an account duly filed in the court, having jurisdic-
tion over such fiduciary, and where such fiduciary, after a
lapse of seven years, has been unable to locate the person
or persons, to whom such cash is distributed by the account,
or his or their legal representative or representatives, the
equity court, or Orphans' Court, having jurisdiction over
the fiduciary, may, on a petition of such fiduciary, if sat-
isfied that reasonable efforts have been made by oral and
written inquiry and by advertisement inserted in at least
two newspapers of general circulation published in the
City of Baltimore or in the county of the court having
jurisdiction over said fund for four consecutive weeks, to
locate the person or persons, entitled to such funds, or
their legal representative or representatives, and that such
efforts have been unsuccessful, order and direct such fiduci-
ary to pay over to the Board of County Commissioners or
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, for the use
of the public schools of the county or City of Baltimore as
the case may be, wherein such account is filed any and all
sums of cash, so remaining in his hands, and any accumu-
lated interest thereon, after the allowance to such fiduciary
of his proper costs, including the costs of such advertise-
ment.

225C. If any such unlocated person, or persons, or his
or their legal representative, or representatives, shall ap-
pear at any time, after payment has been made under
the preceding section, the Board of County Commissioners
or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City receiving
such payment shall repay the same or a pro rata share
thereof, to the person entitled thereto, without interest.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.