334 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 85

mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 23, 1962.

CHAPTER 85
(House Bill 62)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 162 (a),
(b), and (e) of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Settlement
of Small Estates, " broadening the small estate laws to include
estates disposed of by will and providing for the administration or
execution of such estates AND INCREASING THE FEES OF
REGISTERS OF WILLS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 162 (a), (b), and (e) of Article 93 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Testamentary Law", sub-
title "Settlement of Small Estates", be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

162.

(a) When anyone dies testate or intestate, leaving a small estate
consisting only of personal property, if the person who would be en-
titled to be appointed administrator or executor files in the orphans'
court having jurisdiction a petition, under oath, declaring:

(1) The time and place of decedent's death;

(2) The known heirs [; ] and legatees, with their addresses;

(3) The known creditors, together with the amount of each
claim, including contingent and disputed claims;

(4) The known assets;

(5) That petitioner has made a diligent search to discover all
assets and debts of the decedent;

(6) That said assets do not exceed $1, 000 in value; [and]

(7) That there are no known legal proceedings pending in which
the decedent is a party;

(8) That the decedent died either intestate or left a last will and
testament executed in proper form

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