844                               LAWS OF MARYLANDd                        [CH. 502

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 254 of Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Chancery", sub-title "Sales", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

254. Where any person dies, or shall have died, leaving any real
estate in possession, remainder or reversion, and not leaving personal
estate sufficient to pay his debts and costs of -administration, the
court, on any suit instituted by any of his creditors, or by the executor,
administrator or other personal representative of said decedent, may
decree that all the real estate of such person, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, shall be sold to pay his debts; and the funeral
expenses of the decedent, to be allowed in the discretion of the court
according to the condition and circumstances of the deceased, not
to exceed [Three Hundred Dollars] Five Hundred Dollars, except
by special order of court, and provided the estate of the deceased be
' solvent, shall be considered the debt of said decedent, and in the
distribution of the proceeds arising from any sale under this section,
the claim for funeral expenses shall take priority to all claims of the
common creditors of the deceased. This section to apply to all cases
where the heirs or devisees are residents or non-residents, or are
of full age, or infants, or of sound mind, or non compos mentis, and
to cases where the parties left no heirs, or where it is not known
whether he left heirs or devisees, or, if the heirs or devisees be un-
known &nd if there be no heirs the State's Attorney shall appear to
the bill.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 18, 1955.

CHAPTER 502
(House Bill 564)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 276 of
Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Motor Vehicles", sub-title "Operation of Vehicles Upon
Highways", specifying the permissible height for motor vehicles
loaded with hay or straw in bound bales.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 276 of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), sub-title "Operation of Vehicles Upon Highways",
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

276. (Height of Vehicles.) No vehicle including any load thereon
shall exceed a height of 12 feet 6 inches except that motor transport

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.