E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

aforesaid, shall cause the administrator or administra-
tors, as the case may be, of such intestate, to give no-
lice, by advertisements inserted for such periods of time,
and in newspapers published in such places, as the said
court in their discretion may deem necessary and pro-
per, that upon the default of the appearance of any
legal representative or representatives of the intestate,
by a certain day to be fixed by said court, and named in
said advertisements, the estate of the said intestate will
be distributed in conformity with the provisions of this
act.

CHAP. 287.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon passing any
order of distribution in pursuance of this act, the court
aforesaid, shall require from the treasurer of the said
board of commissioners of public schools, or tiny other

officer who may be appointed by said board of com-
missioners, or the mayor and city council of Haiti-
more, to receive such funds, a receipt and release to the
administrator for the same; which receipt shall contain
an obligation that the said funds shall he by the board

of commissioners aforesaid, applied to the use and sup-
port of the public schools of the city of Baltimore, and
the said release shall be recorded and preserved in said
court as its other records are.

Court to re-
quire receipt
and release.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in case such funds
shall happen to be paid, under the provisions of this
act, to said board of commissioners of public schools, and
that any legal representatives of the said intestate, of no
remoter degrees among collaterals, than brothers or sis-
ters children, shall at any time appear, and prove him,
her or themselves to be such legal representatives, the
board of commissioners of public schools who received
such funds, or their successors, if the same shall be in
their hands, or shall have been applied to the use and
support of the said public schools, shall restore the same
to such legal representative or representatives, out of the
school fund under their direction.

Legal repre-
sentatives —
funds to be re-
stored to.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the provisions of
this act shall be deemed and taken to extend to all un-
settled estates whereon administration was granted by
the late Orphans' court for Baltimore county, except
where the intestate was, at the time of his or her death,
a resident of Baltimore county, out of the limits of Bal-
timore city.

Unsettled es-
tates.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
shall be construed to interfere with or affect the rights
vested in the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore,
by the act entitled, a supplement to the act to incorpo-

Act not to af-
fect Charita-
ble Marine so-
ciety.