334 INHERITANCE. [ART. 47.

30. The illegitimate child or children of any female, and the
issue of any such illegitimate child or children, shall be able and
capable in law to take and inherit both real and personal estate
from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants
of each other as the case may be, in like manner as if born in
wedlock.

31. Any child or children of the intestate, or their issue, having
received from the intestate any real estate by way of advance-
ment, may elect to come into partition with the other parceners
on bringing such advancement, or the value thereof at the time
such advancement was received, into hotchpot with the estate
descended, but such child or children, or their issue, shall not be
entitled to claim a share by descent, without bringing such ad-
vancement, or the value thereof as aforesaid, into the common
stock or hotchpot, if there be another child or children unpro-
vided for.

DIVISION AND ELECTION.

32. If the parties entitled to the intestate's estate cannot agree
upon the division thereof, or if any person entitled to any part
be a minor, an application may be made to the Circuit Court of
the county where the estate lies, or if the land lies in different
counties, to the Circuit Court of the county where the greater
part of the land lies, or if the land lies in the city of Baltimore,
then to the Superior Court or Circuit Court for said city, and the
court shall appoint and issue a commission to five discreet, sensi-
ble men, to be commissioners, authorizing and empowering them,
or a majority of them, to proceed in the premises according to
the directions of this article, and in all respects conform to and
comply with the provisions hereof, and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, before they proceed to act, shall severally
take an oath (to be annexed to the said commission) before some
justice of the peace of the county or city, or other person author-
ized to administer an oath, well and faithfully to perform the
duties required of them by the commission, and all duties as-
signed to them under this article, and that they will proceed in
the execution and completion of the said commission, without
favor, partiality or prejudice, and according to the best of their
judgment and understanding.

33. Whenever a majority of the commissioners to be appointed
in virtue of this article shall qualify, they may proceed in the