The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-04-27
CHAPTER 249.

AN All 10 repeal ana re enact WIN
amendments section seventy-seven,
of Article ninety three, of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Tes-
tamentary Law" and to add three
new sections to said Article one, to
come in after section two hundred
and ffty-four, and the other two to
come in after section three hundred
and five.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That sec
tion seventy-seven, OF Article ninety
three, of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Testamentary Law" be,
and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendment, so as to
read as follows:
II. If any person being resident of
any other State, district or territory OF
the United States, or of any foreign
country, shall die possessed of, or be
entitled to any of the public stock or
debts created or issued upon the credit
of this State, or of the stock or debt
created or issued upon the credit OF
the City of Baltimore, or of the capital
stock of any joint stock company in
corporated by the authority of this
State, or of any national bank in this
State, his right or title thereto shall
devolve on his executor or admistra-
tor duly constituted and appointed
as such by the law of the State, dis
trict, territory or country wherein he
may have resided at the time of his
death, in the same manner as If the
said executor or ADMINISTRATOR had
been duly constituted and appointed
as such by the proper authority in this
State.
sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the
three following sections be, and the
same are hereby added to the said
Article, are to come in after section
two hundred and fifty-four, and the
otner two to come in after section
three hundred and five.
254 a. The Orphans Courts shall
have power, ex-officio, to order any
executor, administrator or guardian,
who appears by the records of said
courts, or OF the Register of Wills, to
be in default in respect to the render
ing of any inventory, the returning of
any report, statement, return of any
kind, or to the fulflment of any duty
in said courts, to be summoned to APP
pear before the court, on some certain
day to be named in the summons, and
fulfill his duty, on pain of revocation of
his letters testamentary or of admins
tration, or guardianship it shall be
the duty of the Registers of Wills, from
time to time, to inform the Orphans
Courts, of such default so appearing;
upon such order, letter shall be ad
dressed by the Register of Wills, and
be sent by him by mail to the person
so appearing by him to be in default,
at his postotfice or place of address,
informing him of such order and for
the sending of such letter, the Regis
ter shall receive twenty-five cents
form such person, if, on appearing, he
is found to be i'll default ; if the person
so appearing to be in default does not
appear in court in answer to the let
ter, The court may order him to be
summoned by the Sheriff, and on his
appearing, may pass -s2ch order as
may be just in the premises and upon
his not appearing, after having been
duly summoned, the court may revoke
his letters testamentary or of admins
tration, or guardianship upon any
such revocation, the court may, at its
discretion, order that the parties in
terested, or any one or more of them,
be summoned to appear, and may
make such order or appointment as
the laws of the State and justice may
require but no guardian shall be thus
summoned, eX-otiicio, to appear be-
fore the court after his ward has ar
rived at legal age; nor shall any
executor or administrator be thus
summoned, ex- otficio, after more than
three years have elapsed since the de-
fault for which he is summoned.
3O5 A. No devise or bequest of real
or personal property for any chart
table uses shall be deemed or held to
be void by reason of any uncertainty
with respect to the donors thereof;
provided, the will or cordicil making
the same shall also contain directions
for the formation of corporation to
take the same, and within the period
of twelve calendar mouths from the
grant of probate of such will or cordi-
Gil, corporation shall be formed in
correspondence with such directions,
capable and willing to receive and adj
minister such devise or bequest.
3O5 B. Every devise and bequest
purporting to be of all real and per-
sonal property belonging to the tes-
tator, shall be construed to include
also all property over which he has a
general power of appointment, unless
the contrary intention shall appear in
the will or codicil containing such de-
wise or bequest.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.
Approved April 4th, 1888.
ELIHU E. JACKSON,