Subtitle 19 – Schools

The Orphans’ Court of said City shall order and direct the funds arising from intestates’ estates that may be administered upon in said court, and which remains undistributed for want of legal representatives of the intestates to claim the same, to be paid to the Board of School Commissioners.

The Court shall not make such order until they shall be satisfied that the intestate left no legal representatives living at the time of his death; and they shall cause the administrator of such intestates to give notice, by advertisement to be inserted for such periods of time and in newspapers published in such places as they may deem necessary, that upon default of the appearance of any legal representative of the intestate, by a certain day to be fixed by the Court and named in said advertisement, the estate of said intestate will be paid to the Board of School Commissioners.

They shall, upon passing an order directing such payment, require from the Director of Finance of the City of Baltimore a receipt and release to the administrator for the same.

The release shall contain an obligation that the said funds shall be applied by the Board of School Commissioners to the use and support of the public schools of the City of Baltimore, and shall be recorded and preserved in said court as other records are.

If the estate of an intestate shall be paid to the Board of School Commissioners under this law, and any legal representatives of the intestate of no remoter degrees among collaterals than brothers’ or sisters’ children, shall at any time appear and prove him, her or themselves to be such legal representatives, the Board of School Commissioners who received such estate, or their successors, if the same shall be in their hands or shall have been applied to the use of the public schools, shall restore the same to such legal representatives out of the school fund under their direction.