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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1807.

to infants
who may
acquire
property by
gift or pur-
chase, &c.

real or personal property by gift or by purchase, in the same
manner, with the same powers, and upon the same terms and
conditions, that they may appoint a guardian or guardians to an
infant acquiring such property by descent, devise or in right of
distribution.

Register
not entitled
to receive
any fee in
certain
cases.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That hereafter no register of wills, in
the several counties of this state, shall be entitled to receive
any fee for entering the appearance of the state to any proceed-
ings in any of the orphans courts of this state, unless when a
citation issues, nor for entering the continuance of any proceed-
ings in any of the said courts, except for the entering the same
at the term at which the said continuance was granted.

CHAPTER 140.

AN ACT to increase the powers of the High Court of Chancery.
See notes to 1785, ch. 72, ante page 208.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that the
court of chancery has not the power to decree against parties
who have been directed to produce books relative to disputes in
said court, and who have neglected or refused to comply with
such direction ; therefore,

Where
chancellor
may order
production
of books,
and party
fails to pro-
duce them,
he may
take the
allegations
of the other
pro con-
fesso.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in any case where the chancellor has ordered, or may
order, the production of books in the possession of any party in
the said court, on the failure of such party to produce such
books so directed to be produced, by the day therein limited, or
to shew sufficient cause for such failure, daring the first four
days of the succeeding term, or any other terra that may be
appointed therefor, the chancellor may, in his discretion, take
the allegations in the bill of complaint of the party requiring
the production of the said books, pro confesso and decree ex
parte in such manner as shall appear just and reasonable.
See 1798, ch. 84, ante page 369.

CHAPTER 150.
A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
sundry Insolvent Debtors, passed at November session, eighteen hundred

*Chap. 110.

and five.*
See notes to the original act, ante page 530.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by the original act to which this is a supplement,
it is provided, that if any debtor, applying for the benefit of the
said act, shall have at any time lost more than one hundred
dollars by gaming at one time, such debtor shall be forever
precluded from any benefit of the said act, by the generality of
which provision the whole space of a man's life is embraced,
which is deemed unreasonable and improper ; therefore,