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Rules
concerning
inventories.
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SEC. 1. In every case wherein letters testamentary, or of
administration, or of collection, are granted, in order that all
persons interested in the personal estate may have an oppor-
tunity of knowing, as nearly as may be, the amount of the
same, an inventory, in case the estate lies in one county, or
can conveniently be collected together, or inventories, in case
the property lies in more than one county, or cannot conveni-
ently be collected together, shall be returned to the office
granting the administration.
SEC. 2. And on granting any letters testamentary, or of admi-
nistration, or of collection, a warrant or warrants shall issue,
under the seal of office, authorizing two persons of discretion,
not related to the deceased, nor interested in the administration,
to appraise the goods, chattels and personal estate, of the de-
ceased, known to them, or to be shewn by the executor, admi-
nistrator or collector. Form of the warrant. 'The State of
Maryland, To —— —— and —— —— , greeting. This is to
authorize you jointly to appraise the goods, chattels and per-
sonal estate, of —— —— -, late of —— , deceased, so far as they
shall come to your sight and knowledge, each of you having
first taken the oath, or affirmation, hereto annexed, a certificate
whereof you are to return, annexed to an inventory of the said
goods, chattels and personal estate, by you appraised in dollars
and cents ; and in the said inventory you are to set down, in a
column or columns opposite to each article, the value thereof.
Witness G. D. chief justice (or judge) of the orphans court in
—— county. Test. E. F. Register, &c.'
SEC. 3. And on the death, refusal or neglect to act, of any
appraiser, another warrant may forthwith issue in its stead.
SEC. 4. The appraisers, before they proceed to act, shall take
the following oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, annexed
to, or endorsed on, the warrant, before any person authorized to
administer an oath : 'I, A. B., do swear, or solemnly, sincerely
and truly affirm, that I will well and truly, without partiality or
prejudice, value and appraise the goods, chattels and personal
estate, of —— —— , deceased, so far as the same shall come to
my sight and knowledge, and will, in all respects, perform rny
duty as appraiser, to the best of my skill and judgment ; so
help me God.'
SEC. 5. The appraisers shall proceed as conveniently as may
be to the discharge of their duty, and shall set down each
article, with the value thereof, in dollars and cents ; all the
valuations on one side of the paper shall be set down in one
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