ART. 93.] TESTAMENTARY LAW. 677

263. He shall not plead as an attorney in any court in the
county where he is register, for any person, on any pretence
whatsoever; and shall not exact, extort, demand, take, accept
or receive from any person whatsoever, any fee, gratuity,
gift or reward, for giving his advice in any matter or thing
that will be transacted in the courts of the county where he
is register, under the penalty of one hundred dollars for each
offence.

264. If a free negro applies to the Register of Wills of the
county where the will is recorded, under which he claims his
freedom, the register, on being satisfied that such negro is
entitled to his freedom under such will, shall grant him a certi-
ficate thereof under the seal of his office, and shall set forth
therein the height, age, complexion, when such negro became
free, the place where he was raised, and such marks as may
appear to such register to be notable in such negro; and the
register shall keep a registry of each certificate granted by him.

265. No register shall grant a certificate of freedom to any
negro who has before obtained one, unless such negro shall make
oath that he has lost the former certificate of his freedom; and
the register shall describe the negro applying for the same in the
second certificate, in the same manner he is directed herein to
describe him in the first, and shall register the same in the same
manner.

266. In all cases where a Register of Wills has been appointed
auditor for the purpose of ascertaining the sum for which judg-
ment shall be rendered against any executor or administrator, it
shall be his duty to act in virtue of such appointment, under the
penalty of fifty dollars for every such neglect; and in all cases
where a person other than the Register of Wills hath been ap-
pointed as aforesaid, who shall refuse to act, the Register of
Wills shall be appointed auditor in the place of the person re-
fusing, and shall forthwith proceed to discharge the duties thereof,
under the penalty above mentioned. And the said register, and
every other person who shall act as auditor, shall be allowed for
his trouble the same fee as the register is by law entitled to
receive for the stating an account of the same number of sides
which any statement by him to be made as auditor shall contain,
to be paid by the plaintiff to such auditor, and to be allowed to
such plaintiff in his costs against the executor or administrator
as other costs are taxed against them.