The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-11

Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
CHAPTER $50.
AN ACT to repeal sections 213, 214 and
2l5, Article Is of, the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Chancery," sub
title Trustee" and to re-enact the
same with amendments.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That sec
lions 213, PA and 215 of Article l6 of
the Code of Public General Laws, title
''Chancery," subtitle Trustee" be,
and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, so as to read as follows:
2l3. A trustee or trustees in the State
of Maryland either by deed or will, or
by appointment by order of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City, or by any
court in this State having equity juris-
diction, or the committee of any lunatic
having funds, money, or property of
any kind or description, whether in
vested..-,or uninvested belonging to cestui
que trusts, or lunatics may, upon order
of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City,
or upon order of any court of this State
having equity jurisdiction, or any judge
thereof, transfer, assign or pay over the
principal of said trust estate, of what
ever it NAV consist, and being the prop
erty of his or their ceStut que trusts, or
of such lunatic to any other trustee or
trustees of said cestut que trusts or com
mittee guardian or trustee of such lun-
attic appointed as such by court in any
State, of competent Jurisdiction, or any
Judge thereof, whether the trustee,
committee or guardian so appointed re-
sides in the State of Maryland or else
where.
2l4. Upon application the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City, or any court IN
this State having equity jurisdiction, is
authorized and empowered to pass an
order directing the transfer, assignment,
or payment of the trust funds, moneys
or properties of said cestut que trusts or
lunatics to any other trustee or trustees,
committee or guardian as specified and
mentioned in Section 2l3; provided the
said court before passing the order as
aforesaid, or any judge thereof as men
toned in the preceding section, who is
hereby authorized and empowered to
pass such order, shall be of opinion that
it would be to the interest and advant-
age of the ceetuj que trusts or lunatics
that said transfer should be made, and
the court or said judge shall further be
satisfied that said new trustee, COM
mittee or guardian has properly bonded
and been qualified as said trustee, COM
mittee or guardian. --
2l5. The receipt and release of the
trustee or trustees, committee or guar
dian, properly authenticated, as pro-
vided by Article 70 of this code, to
whom the said trust monies, properties
and effects of the cestut que trusts or lun-
atics shall or may have been paid over,
assigned or transferred in virtue of the
order or decree of the said Circuit Court
of Baltimore City, or of any other court
of competent jurisdiction in this State,
or any Judge thereof shall be good and
sufficient release to the trustee or COM
mittee so paying over transferring or as
signing said trust monies, properties
and effects of said trust estate.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved April 6, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES H. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
We hereby certify that the aforegoing
is correct copy of an Act of the Gen
eral Assembly of MARYLAND, passed Jan
uary Session, 1894.
J. ROGER MCSHERRY,
Seer tary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
CHAPTER SIC.
AN ACT to add new section to Article
rs of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Pleadings, Practice and
Process at Law" heading practice"
under the new subtitle Legal Sutfi-
cheney of Evidence" to follow Sec
tion 81. and to be designated "Section