An ACT to aid and amend defects in the records, papers and proceedings,
in the register of wills office of Harford county.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
letters testamentary, all letters of
administration, all testamentary bonds, all administration bonds, all inventories,
and all guardians
bonds, and all accounts of sperate and desperate debts, and accounts of
sales, not heretofore recorded
in the office of the register of wills in Harford county, and which shall
be hereafter filed in
said office, shall be fairly recorded by the register of wills of said
county in folio book, well bound,
with a correct and fair index to the same.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all wills, heretofore
recorded and certified by the late register of
wills of said county to have been proved according to law, although such
probat and certificate are
not in due form of law, and have not been endorsed on said will in words
at length, or recorded in
words at length, or signed by the late register, shall be as good,
valid, and of the same avail in law,
to every intent, as if the said probat and certificate had been endorsed
on said will, and signed by
the late register, and recorded in due form of law.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all inventories,
accounts of sperate and desperate debts, and
accounts of sales, heretofore returned to and filed in said office, upon
which the oath prescribed by
law has not been endorsed and certified, and signed by said register according
to law, and which have
not been duly recorded, shall be and are hereby declared to be as good
and available in law as if the
said oath endorsed and certified thereon had been in due form so recorded.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all errors in casting
up figures in any account heretofore rendered,
and in any inventory heretofore filed, shall and may be corrected by the
register of wills, under
the directions of the orphans court of said county.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
inventories, accounts of sperate and desperate
debts, and accounts of sales, have been filed, and no sort of probat
and certificate endorsed on the
same, that the orphans court aforesaid shall and may issue a citation for
the executors or administrators,
or their survivors, personally to appear before said court, and make oath
agreeably to the form
prescribed by law.
VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
an account of sales has not been returned to
said office, and the executors and administrators are not deceased, and
where there are survivors, the
said orphans court, shall and may issue process to compel the said executors
and administrators, or
their survivors, to return in due form of law a regular account of sales.
VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all testamentary
bonds, all administration bonds, and all
guardians bonds, filed in said register's office, being in the hand writing
of the said late register, but
not signed by him, or any other person as a witness, shall be as good,
and of the like avail in law,
as if the same had been signed by the said late register as a witness.
VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases
where wills have heretofore been filed in said register's
office, and not proved according to law, and the witnesses thereto are
deceased, that probat
of the hand writing of the witnesses, and of the testator, or probat of
the actual execution of said
will by any other competent witness or witnesses, made in the said orphans
court, shall be as good,
and of the like avail in law, as if the said will had been heretofore duly
proved in the said orphans
court, in the form prescribed by law, which said probat shall be endorsed
on said will, and certified
by the register of wills, and recorded as other probats of wills are endorsed,
certified and recorded.
IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the register of
wills of Harford county shall be entitled to charge
and receive the same fees for doing the duties herein prescribed as he
is entitled to receive for like |
Passed 19th of
Dec. 1800.
Letters, &c. to
be recorded,
&c.
Wills to be
good, &c.
Inventories,
&c. to be good,
&c.
Errors may be
corrected, &c.
Court, in certain
cases, to
issue a citation,
&c.
And also issue
process, &c.
Bonds, &c. to
be good, &c.
Probats to certain
wills to be
good, &c.
Register's fees,
&c. |