1270 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 726

keeping of any and all funds remaining in the hands of any
executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary
under the jurisdiction of the said Orphans' Courts, and not sus-
ceptible of distribution by said executor, administrator, trustee,
guardian, or other fiduciary under the jurisdiction of the said
Orphans' Courts, provided that no deposits or withdrawals shall
be made to or from such fund except upon order duly passed
by the Orphans' Court, and provided further that said account
shall only be for the purpose of receiving funds, the retention
of which said funds by the said executor, administrator, trustee,
guardian, or other fiduciary under the jurisdiction of the said
Orphans' Courts would prevent the complete distribution of the
estate being administered by the said executor, administrator,
trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary under the jurisdiction of
the said Orphans' Courts. And the payment of such fund or
funds to a Register of Wills, under the provisions of this sec-
tion, shall be and constitute a full and complete distribution of
said fund or funds insofar as the administration of said fund
is concerned. The Orphans' Courts in Baltimore City and in
the several counties shall not permit the depositing of any
monies to said account until the said Courts shall be satisfied
that diligent and reasonable effort has been made to distribute,
or that for proper cause shown, said monies cannot be distrib-
uted to the parties believed to be entitled thereto. Deposits so
made into the "Registry" of the several Orphans' Courts shall
remain until such time as they are claimed by the person or
persons legally entitled thereto, whose claim or claims shall
be presented to the Orphans' Court for Baltimore City or the
several Counties, as the*case may be, in the form of a petition
filed in the estate from which the fund or funds being claimed
originated, and said petition shall clearly set forth the merits
of the claim. Upon the expiration of a period of seven (7)
years from the date of the deposit of any such fund or funds
into the said "Registry" and no claimant or claimants having
appeared and made claim therefor within such time; then and
in such event the said fund or funds shall be and become pay-
able to the Board of County Commissioners of the several
Counties, or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City
for the use of the public schools of the respective City of Bal-
timore, or the several Counties, as the case may be, after due
compliance by the said Register of Wills with the provisions of
Section 233 of Article 16.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved May 26, 1941.