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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1828.

Persons
having
charge of
lunatic, &c.
to be com-
pensated,

courts aforesaid, to allow to any trustee, committee, or other
person or persons charged with the care and custody of the
person and estate of any idiot, lunatic, or person non compos
mentis, any sum dot exceeding ten per cent, upon the income
and expenditure of such idiot, lunatic, or person non compos
mentis, as a compensation for the care and trouble which may
be Incurred by such trustee, committee, person or persons in
the execution of such trust.

CHAPTER 27.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the better regulation
of Chancery Proceedings in certain cases.
See notes to 1785, eh. 72, ante page 208.

Judges of
4th judicial
district em-
powered to
pass any or-
der to bring
cause to fi-
nal hearing.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the judges of the respective county courts in the fourth
judicial district in this state, or any one of them, in the vacation
of the same, shall have the power in the several counties of the
district, either before or after a decree, to pass any order which
may be necessary to bring a cause to a final hearing and termi-
nation, or to carry a decree already passed into final effect.

To approve
of trustee's
bond.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, Whenever any county courts in
this state have appointed a trustee for any purpose, it shall be
lawful for one of the judges thereof, in the vacation or recess of
said court, to determine upon and approve of the trustee's bond,
and the securities thereto, in the same manner as if the same
were presented for that purpose in term time.

Associate
judge to at-
tend court-
house of
Somerset
county, &c.

SEC. 3. And it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be the duty of some one of the associate judges of
the fourth judicial district of this state to attend at the court-
house of Somerset county at some day between the several
sessions of said court, who shall have power to make all neces-
sary orders touching any subject matter in the said court upon
the equity side, brought or depending therein ; and it shall be
the duty of the clerk of the said county to attend the said judge
on the said days, who shall make due entry of all such matter
and things as shall or may be ordered as aforesaid by the said
judge ; and the said county court is hereby instructed, at their
first court next after the passage of this act, to appoint the
several days on which the said judge shall attend as aforesaid,
which said days shall be as nearly as may be equi-distant
between the terms of the said county court.