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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
of wills in Harford county, and which shall be hereafter filed in
said office, shall be fairly recorded by the register of wills of said
county
in folio books, well bound, with a correct and fair index to the same. |
1800.
CHAP. 76.
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2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all wills, heretofore
recorded and
certified by the late register of wills of said county to have been
proved according to law, although such probat and certificate are
not in due form of law, and have not been endorsed on said will in
words of length, or recorded in words at length, or signed by the
late register, shall be as good, valid, and of the same avail in law,
to every intent, as if the said probat and certificate had been endorsed
on said will, and signed by the late register, and recorded
in due form of law. |
Wills heretofore
recorded and certified
to be good. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all inventories,
accounts of sperate
and desperate debts, and accounts of sales, heretofore returned
to and filed in said office, upon which the oath prescribed by law
has not been endorsed and certified, and signed by said register according
to law, and which have not been duly recorded, shall be
and are hereby declared to be as good and available in law, as if
the said oath endorsed and certified thereon had been in due form so
recorded. |
Inventories, &c.
heretofore filed to
be good. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all errors in casting
up figures
in any account heretofore rendered, and in any inventory heretofore
filed, shall and may be corrected by the register of wills, under
the directions of the orphans court of said county. |
Errors in accounts
may be corrected. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
inventories,
accounts of sperate and desperate debts, and accounts of sales, have
been filed, and no sort of probat and certificate endorsed on the
same, that the orphans court aforesaid shall and may issue a citation
for the executors or administrators, or their survivors, personally
to appear before said court, and make oath agreeable to the
form prescribed by law. |
Court, in certain
cases to issue a citation, |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
an account of
sales has not been returned to said office, and the executors and administrators
are not deceased, and where there are survivors, the
said orphans court shall and may issue process to compel the said
executors and administrators, or their survivors, to return in due
form of law a regular account of sales. |
And also issue process. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all testamentary
bonds, all administration
bonds, and all guardians bonds, filed in said register's
office, being in the hand writing of the said late register, but not
signed by him, or any other person as a witness, shall be as good,
and of the like avail in law, as if the same had been signed by the
said late register as a witness. |
Testamentary
bonds, &c. to be
good in certain
cases. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where
wills have
heretofore been filed in said register's office, and not proved according
to law, and the witnesses thereto are deceased, that probat of
the hand writing of the witnesses, and of the testator, or probat of
the actual execution of said will by any other competent witness or
witnesses, made in the said orphans court, shall be as good, and of
the like avail in law, as if the said will had been heretofore duly
proved in the said orphans court, in the form prescribed by law,
which said probat, shall be endorsed on said will, and certified by
the register of wills, and recorded as other probats of wills are endorsed,
certified and recorded. |
Probats to wills in
certain cases to be
good. |
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