Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-01-08
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is for the
adoption of female child known
as Infant Smith by George w.
Burns and Alma H. Burns, his
wife, and for the change of name
of said Infant Smith to Marilyn
Burns; the petition in this case
states in substance that the infant
female child, known as Infant
Smith, now in the custody of your
petitioners, was born on the 10Th
day of January, 1947, at Sibley
Hospital, Washington, D. c., to
Lydia Ann Smith, an unmarried
woman; that your petitioners re-
side at Washington Grove, Mont
gomery County, Maryland, where
they have so resided for more than
five years Immediately prior to the
filing of this petition; that the age
of the petitioner, George W. Burns,
is forty-one years, and the age of
the petitioner, Alma H. Burns, is
forty years; that the business or
employment of the petitioner,
George w. Burns, is painting, and
that the business or employment of
the petitioner, Alma H. Burns, is
housewife; that your petitioners
are husband and wife, having been
married on the 26th day of Octo-
Der, 1910; that they are not relat-
ed either by blood or marriage to
the said infant child nor to the
natural mother of said child, Lydia
Ann Smith; that the said infant
child is Of the Caucasian or white
race; and that your petitioners are
informed and believe that said
child was born of mother of the
Protestant religion; that your pc
titioners are of the Caucasian or
white race, and are of the Protes-
tant religion, the petitioner, George
w. Burns, being of the Methodist
faith, and the petitioner, Alma H.
Burns, being of the Lutheran
faith: that the mother of said
child, Lydia Ann Smith, whose
whereabouts are unknown, but
said child has been in the physical
custody of your petitioners since
the 9Th day of February, 1947;
that on the 9th day of April, 1947,
the Maryland State Department of
Public Welfare issued a license to
your petitioners to keep said child,
as will appear from such license
which is attached thereto as Petit
toners Exhibit No. L; that your
petitioners desire to change the
name of said infant child to Mari
Ign Burns; that the mother of SAID
child has consented to this adop-
ton and to the change of the name
of said child as will apear from
such consent attached thereto as
Petitioners Exhibit No. 2; that
your petitioners desire that this
Honorable Court allow them to
ADOPT said infant, and to change
the name of said infant to Mari
Ign Burns.
It is thereupon this 18th day of
December, nineteen hundred and
forty-seven, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, sitting as
a Court Of Equity, and by author
ity thereof, ADJUDGED and OR
DERED that the petitioners, by
publishing a copy of this Order in
some newspaper printed and pub
lished in said Montgomery County
once in each of four successive
weeks before the 18th day of Janu-
arv. nineteen hundred and forty
eight, giving notice to the said abb
sent defendant, Lydia Ann Smith,
v1bose whereabouts are unknown
~ your petitioners, of the object
and substance of this petition,
warning her to be and appear in
this Court, in person or by solicit
tor, on or before the Bird day of
February, nineteen hundred and
forty-eight, and to answer to the
said petition and abide by and per-
form such decree as may be passed
therein.
STEDMAN PRESCOTT,
Judge of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County,
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS.