LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1823.

791

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That hereafter it shall and may be lawful for the several
county courts in this state, on petition by any person or persons
interested, to appoint commissioners in cases where a public
landing is required to be established at the termination of any
road now existing as a public road, or in any case in which it
is required to open, change or alter a public road to lead to any-
navigable water, in the same manner as the courts are now
authorized to do in relation to public roads.

County
courts
authorized.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases in which it is
required to establish a public landing, the commissioners shall
be directed to ascertain whether the public convenience requires
that such public landing shall be established, and shall return
a plot and description thereof, with a full report of their proceed-
ings in the same manner as they are now required to do on
applications for public roads, and the same proceedings shall
thereupon be had as are now directed by law in relation to
public roads.

Proceedings
directed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the respective levy courts in
the counties in which they are vested with jurisdiction on the
subject of public roads, be, and they are hereby authorized to
exercise the same po\vers, and pursue the same mode of pro-
ceeding in establishing public landing places as aforesaid, as
they now have, can claim, or exercise in opening public roads.

CHAPTER 131.

Levy
courts
authorized.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act for amending and
reducing into system, the laws and regulations concerning last Wills and
Testaments, the duties of Executors, Administrators and Guardians, and
the rights of Orphans and other representatives of deceased persons.

*1798, ch.
101.

WHEREAS, great frauds have been practised, by the employ-
ment of agents in the administration of the estates of deceased
persons, who are not compelled by law to make any return of
their proceedings to the several orphans courts in this state, and
cannot be examined by said courts, on oath, as to their proceed-
ings, when employed by executors and administrators in the
administration of the estates of deceased persons, therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the orphans court of
this state, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered
wherever they are satisfied that an agent has been employed in
the administration of the estate of a deceased person by an
executor or administrator or executrix or administratrix, to
examine such agent on oath of all proceedings which may have
taken place relative to the administration of the estate of any
deceased person in which such agent may have been employed,

Agents may
be ex-
amined on
oath.