Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-02-05
SITTING AS A
COURT OF EQUITY.

COURT OF Equity.
Adoption Equity No. 81.
The object of this suit is for the
adoption of male child known as
Infant Richard w. Douglass, Jr.
by Franz Joseph Maier and Har-
riet Cummings Maier, his wife, and
for the change of name of said
Infant Richard w. Douglass, Jr. to
Richard Douglass Maier; the pc
tition in the case. states in sub
stance that the infant Richard W..
Douglass, Jr., now in the custody
of your petitioners, was born on
the 18th day of July, 1913 in New
York City, New York, to Betty
Douglass and Richard w. Doug
lass; that your petitioners are citi-
zens of the State of Maryland,
residents of the County of Mont
gomery and are husband and wife,
now residing at 4702 Chestnut
Street, Bethesda, Maryland; that
your petitioners were lawfully
married on June 10, 1886 in New
York City, New York; that they
have resided in the County of
Montgomery since January, 1914;
that your petitioners have no chill
dren of their marriage; that your
petitioner, Franz Joseph Maier, is
now thirty-eight (38) years of age
and is employed at the U. S. Pub
lie Health; the wife, Harriet Cum
mings Maier, is thirty-seven (37)
years of age and is occupied as a
housewife; the infant is of the
white race and was born of a
Protestant mother; the mother of
said infant is the sister of petition
er Harriet Cummings Maier and
sister-in-law of your petitioner,
Franz Joseph Maier and thereby
the infant is related as a nephew;
your petitioners are of the white
race and are Protestants actively
attending Church; the infant child
has been under the care and Gus
tody of your petitioners since
about June, 1915; the home of your
petitioners was approved by the
Board of Public Welfare on date
of about October, 1947; the mother
of said infant has consented 70 the
adoption by the petitioners as will
appear Ly reference to exhibit A;
the whereabouts of the father
being unknown, your petitioners
have been unable to obtain q con-
sent; it is the desire of your pc
titioners to adopt, infant Richard
w. Douglass, Jr., as their lawful
child and to give him their name
of Richard Douglass Maier; that
the Welfare Board of Montgomery
County, Maryland has been advised
in this matter but because Of the
relation of the parties has the
usual Investigation; the petition
prays this Honorable Court; %
pass a decree ordering the infant
child, Richard Douglass Maier. the
lawfully adopted child of Franz
Joseph and Harriet Cummings
Maier, to order the Clerk
of this Court to seal the records,
as in like cases; for such other
and further relief as the case may
need.
1t is thereupon this 22nd day of
January, nineteen hundred and
forty-eight, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, sitting
as a Court Of Equity. and bv
authorizing thereof, ADJUDGED
and ORDERED that the petitioners
by publishing copy Of this Order
in some newspaper printed and
published in said Montgomery
County once in each of four sue
cessive weeks before the 18th dav
of February, nineteen hundred and
forty-eight. giving notice to tho
absent defendant, Richard w.
Douglass, whose whereabouts are
unknown to your petitioners. of the
object and substance of this
petition. warning him to be and
appear in this Court, in person or
by solicitor, on or before the 18th
day Of March. nineteen hundred
and forty-eiRht, and TO answer to
the said petition and abide by and
perform such decree as may be
passed therein.
CHARLES w. WOODWARD.
Judge of the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland.
True CoDy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
1898 Clerk.