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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1819.

executor or administrator for all expenses incurred by him or
her in the support and maintenance of the negroes belonging to

Proviso,

such estate ; Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall
apply to or affect executors or administrators who may have
completed and settled the administration on the estates of their
testators or intestates before the passage of this act.

Person in-
terested in
estate of se-
curity, &c.
to have
right to call
for counter
security.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That any person interested in the
. estate of any security of an executor or administrator, shall have
the same right and privilege to call upon such executor or
i administrator, for counter security, in the same manner as a
security to an executor or administrator now can, and the same
proceedings shall be thereon had as if the application had been
rnade by a security to an executor or administrator, according
to the provisions of the original act to which this is a further
additional supplement.

Register to
grant let-
ters of
administra-
tion during
recess of
court.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That hereafter it shall be
lawful for the register of wills of the several counties in this
state, to grant or issue letters of administration, during the
recess of the orphans court of the several counties.
See 1831, ch. 315, sec. 14.
SEC. 5. Confirmatory of letters heretofore granted.

DECEMBER, 1819.— CHAPTER 37.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act providing for the
appointment of an Attorney-General, and of District Attorneys, in the
seveial Judicial Districts of this State, and for Baltimore City Court.
Repealed by 1821, ch. 126.

CHAPTER 49.

AN ACT to repeal parts of the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned.

Acts
repealed.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
such parts of the act of assembly, passed at April session seven-
teen hundred and fifteen, chapter twenty-seven, which directs
punishment by whipping, and all such parts of the act of as-
sembly, passed at September session seventeen hundred and
twenty-three, chapter sixteen, which directs punishment by
boring through the tongue, burning on the forehead, and whip-
ping, be and the same are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 55.
AN ACT relating to the Confinement of persons convicted in the Courts
of the United States for the District of Maryland, in the Penitentiary
of this State.

Keeper to
receive per-
sons sen-
tenced by

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the keeper of the peniten-
tiary, to receive into his custody, and put to labour, any person
or persons who may hereafter be sentenced to imprisonment