ART. 93.] TESTAMENTARY LAW. . 631

security approved by the said court, to be filed, recorded and
sued as an administration bond with the following condition:
"The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the above
bounden ———— shall well and honestly discharge the office of
collector of the goods, chattels and personal estate and debts of
————, deceased, in the State of Maryland, (or ———— county,)
and shall make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory
or inventories of such said goods, chattels, personal estate and
debts, as shall come to his possession or knowledge, and the
same shall in due time return to the Register of Wills of ————
county, and shall also deliver to the person or persons who shall
be authorized by the Orphans' Court of said county to receive
them, such of the said goods, chattels, personal estate and debts,
as shall come to his possession, (except such as shall be allowed
for by the said court,) then the above obligation is to be void, or
it is otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in law."

63. Every collector on the grant of letters, shall take the fol-
lowing oath : " I, ————,' do swear that I will well and honestly
discharge the office of collector of the goods, chattels, personal
estate and debts of ————, deceased, according to the tenor
of the letters granted to me by the Orphans' Court of ————
county, and agreeably to the directions of law, to the best of my
knowledge, so help me God."

64. A collector shall collect the goods, chattels and personal
estate, and debts of the deceased, and cause the same to be
appraised, and return an inventory thereof in the manner pre-
scribed for an administrator, and secure the same at such reason-
able expense as the court shall allow; and may under the au-
thority of the court sell perishable articles; and he may bring
suits for debts or other property, as an administrator may do,
and shall account for the money or property recovered.

65. The Orphans' Court may allow a collector a commission on
the property and debts actually collected and afterwards deli-
vered to the executor or administrator, not exceeding three per
cent., or on the whole inventory not exceeding two per cent.

66. On granting of letters testamentary or of administration,
the powers of any such collector shall cease, and it shall be
his duty to deliver, on demand, all the property and money
of the decedent in his hands, except as before excepted, to the
person obtaining such letters; and in case of the collector's