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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Cecil county may, if they are of opinion that the
said road will be of public advantage, proceed in the same agreeable
to the provisions of the original act to which this is a supplement. |
1810.
CHAP. 32.
Levy court may
proceed according
to provisions of
original act. |
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CHAP. XXXIII.
An Act to confirm an Act passed at November session, one thousand
eight hundred and nine*, entitled, An act to alter such
parts of the
Constitution and Form of Government of this State as
relate to
Voters and qualification of Voters. Lib. TH.
No. 2, fol. 462. |
Passed Dec. 23.
* Ch. 83. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
an act passed at November session, eighteen hundred and nine,
entitled, An act to alter such parts of the constitution and form of
government of this state as relate to voters and qualification of
voters, shall be and the same is hereby confirmed. |
Act confirmed. |
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CHAP. XXXIV.
A Further Supplement to the Act (a), entitled, An Act for
the amending,
and reducing into system, the Laws and Regulations concerning
last Wills and Testaments, the duties of Executors,
Administrators
and Guardians, and the rights of Orphans and other Representatives
of deceased persons. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol.
462.
(a) 1798, ch. 101. See
1802, ch. 101, and the acts there referred to; and also
1818, ch. 217. |
Passed Dec. 23. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
no nuncupative will hereafter to be made shall be good, where the
estate thereby bequeathed shall exceed the value of three hundred
dollars, that is not proved by the oaths of three witnesses at the
least who were present at the making thereof, nor unless it be
proved that the testator, at the time of pronouncing the same, did
bid the persons present, or some of them, to bear witness that such
was his will, or to that effect, nor unless such nuncupative will
were made in the time of the last sickness of the deceased, and in
the house of his or her habitation or dwelling or where he or she
hath been resident for the space of ten days or more next before
the making of such will, except where such person was surprised
or taken sick, being from his own home, and died before he or she
returned to the place of his or her dwelling. |
No nuncupative
will to be good
where estate bequeathed
exceeds
300 dollars, unless
proved by three
witnesses, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That six months after
the speaking of
the pretended testamentary words, no testimony shall be received
to prove any will nuncupative, except the said testimony, or the
substance thereof, were committed to writing within six days after
the making of the said will; but any soldier, being in actual military
service, or any mariner or seaman, being at sea, may dispose
of his moveables, wages and personal estate, as he or they might
have done before the passing of this act. |
Six months after
speaking pretended
testamentary
words, no testimony
to be received
unless committed
to writing, &c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no will in writing
concerning
any goods or chattels, or personal estate, shall be repealed, nor
shall any clause, devise or bequest therein, be altered or changed
by word of mouth only, except the same be in the life-time of the
testator committed to writing, and after the writing thereof read
unto the testator, and allowed by him, and proved to be so done by
three witnesses at the least. |
No will in writing
to be repealed or
altered except in
life-time of testator
committed to writing,
&c. |
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