Chapter 1441. To amend section eleven hundred and forty-one of the “Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two
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CHAP. 1441.— An Act To amend section eleven hundred and forty-one of the “Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 15970](/us/bill/58/hr/15970).] [[Public, No. 174](/us/pl/58/174).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia Code.Guardianship.Vol. 31, p. 1371, amended.
That section eleven hundred and forty-one of the “Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 1141. Ancillary guardians for nonresident infants and lunatics. Nonresident infant or lunatic.— Whenever an infant or lunatic residing without the District is entitled to property in the District or to maintain any action therein, a general guardian or committee of his estate, appointed by a court of competent juris-1007diction in the State or Territory where said infant or lunatic resides, of any person at the reediest of said guardian or committee, may apple to the court by petition for ancillary letters as such guardian or committee.
Said petition must be under oath and be accompaniedPetition. with duly certified copies of so much of the record and proceedings as shows the appointment of such guardian or committee and that he has given a sufficient bond to account, for all property and money that may come into his hands by virtue of the authority hereby conferred. TheAppointment. court may thereupon issue to such guardian or committee ancillary letters as such guardian or committee, without citation, or may cite such persons as it may think proper to show cause why the said application should be refused; and the said court shall require from suchBond. person or persons the security required by law in like cases from a resident guardian or committee.
" Approved, March 3, 1905.