734 LAWS OP MARYLAND [CH. 282

"Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Settlement of Small
Estates, " to provide for the settlement of small estates
of male OR UNMARRIED FEMALE decedents where
the allowable funeral expenses are equal to or exceed
the known assets of the estate.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sub-section (B) of Section 151B of Article 93 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1947 Supplement), title
"Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Settlement of Small
Estates, " be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

151B.

(B) Whenever such a Preliminary Order has been
passed and the notice has been published and the time
provided in such notice has expired, the Petitioner shall
file, under oath, a Statement declaring that the notice has
been published, and that the said time has expired, and
listing all then known creditors, including contingent and
disputed claims, and the amount of each claim. If satis-
fied, that said Statement is true, and after hearing and
disposing of any objections filed in the Orphans' Court
by anyone interested in the estate, the Orphans' Court
shall pass a Final Order (1) directing the Petitioner to
pay from the estate all said claims, as well as the custo-
mary widow's allowance, if any, in the order of priority
provided by law for an administrator, and (2) authoriz-
ing any person having possession of any property of the
decedent's estate to transfer and pay over the same in
accordance with the Petitioner's directions, and (3) de-
creeing that, after the Register of Wills certifies upon said
Final Order that he has seen the vouchers for the pay-
ment of said claims and is satisfied that said claims, as
well as all inheritance taxes and the fees hereinafter pro-
vided have been paid, then the remaining balance of said
estate, if any, shall be vested in the appropriate person
or persons of the following, that is to say:

1. in the spouse, if there be one surviving, or

2. if there be no surviving spouse, in the decedent's
child or children, equally (the share of any minor child
to vest in the person having custody of such child, to be
used for the care of such child), or

3. if there be neither surviving spouse nor surviving
children, then in those persons who would be entitled
thereto under the laws of descent and distribution in this
Article provided for the property of intestates.