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when acting under this section, shall in addition have all the powers
and duties imposed upon examiners by [Section 311 of this Article,
and any amendments thereto] statute or rule of court. After the
hearing has been concluded, the commissioner or examiner shall put
together the original depositions, with all vouchers, documents or
other papers filed with him as evidence, in proper order and form,
shall authenticate the same by his certificate and signature, and
shall return the same, with the titling of the cause endorsed there-
on, to the Clerk of the Court, without delay. He shall also return
properly authenticated all other exhibits filed with him as evidence.
At the hearing the person examined shall be required to answer all
questions relative to property of any kind which he, his firm or
corporation has acquired, possessed, owned, and disposed of within
the period of three years immediately preceding the assumption of
jurisdiction of the cause; provided, that said person shall not be
required to answer questions which may incriminate him.

73. If any person shall secrete an infant against whom process
has issued, so as to prevent the service of such process, such persons
shall be liable to attachment and punishment as for contempt [; or
if any infant secretes himself or evades the service of process, he
may be proceeded against as if he were a non-resident infant].

92. (Appeal) Any party to an adoption proceeding may appeal
to the Court of Appeals from any interlocutory or final order or
decree of the trial court [, within the period specified generally for
appeals in equity cases].

125. In cases where proceedings have been or shall be instituted
for the renewal of a lease containing a covenant for renewal, the
court may pass a decree for the renewal of such lease, which shall be
binding upon all persons who shall have become parties to such pro-
ceedings by summons or appearance, or who shall have been pro-
ceeded against by publication, as provided by [ Section 153 of this
article] statute or rule of court; and such decree shall be sufficient
to renew the title of all persons interested under such lease, according
to their respective interests and estates thereunder, for such ad-
ditional term, under such rent and upon such covenants, conditions
and stipulations as were provided in such lease.

131A. Any person being in actual peaceable possession of lands
in the State of Maryland or, in the event said lands be vacant and
unoccupied, in constructive and peaceable possession thereof, either
under color of title, or under claim of right by reason of his or his
predecessor's adverse possession for the statutory period, may, when
his title thereto, or any part thereof, is denied or disputed, or when
any other person claims or is claimed, of record or otherwise, to own
said lands, or any part thereof, or any interest therein, or to hold
any lien or encumbrance thereon, whether such hostile outstanding
claim is being actively asserted or not, and when no action at law
or any proceeding in" equity is pending to enforce or test the validity
of such title, lien or encumbrance, or other adverse claim, maintain
a suit in equity in the circuit court of the county in which said land
lies, or in either of the circuit courts of Baltimore City if said land
should lie therein, to quiet, or remove any such cloud from said title,
or determine any such adverse claim; and such proceeding shall be
deemed to be a proceeding in rem or quasi in rem [so that if the