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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

administered in either of the counties of Somerset
or Worcester, and ill e said administrator shall
produce a certificate of such administration to the
Orphans' Court of Wicomico County, and the said
Orphans' Court for Wicomico County shall be sat-
isfied that it will be to the advantage of all con-
cerned to have said real estate sold and the proceeds
invested for the benefit of the heirs of said de-
ceased, they may order the same to be sold by said
administrator and the proceeds invested as now
provided for by law.

In force.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1868.

CHAPTER 254.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a
Commissioner of slave statistics for Wicomico
County.

Commission-
er of slave
statistics.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland , That there shall be a Commissioner
of slave statistics for Wicomico County, who shall
be appointed and qualified as prescribed by the
Act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed
at the January Session, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, Chapter one hundred and eighty-nine,
and be subject to all the provisions of that Act
except as to the time of appointment.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1868.