| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any joint
administrator
or executor (a) shall apprehend they are likely to suffer by the
negligence or misconduct in the administration, improper use or
application of the assets of the estate, by any executor or administrator,
they shall make complaint thereof to the orphans court,
and if the same shall be adjudged well founded, the court shall
have authority, in their discretion, to revoke the powers and authority
if the executor or administrator so complained of, and to
enforce by attachment and commitment if necessary, the surrender
and delivery to the remaining executors or administrators of the
assets of the estate, and of all books, accounts, papers and evidences
of debt, of the estate, that may be in the possession or
control of the person so dismissed from the administration, and
the remaining executors or administrators shall have remedy, by
an action on the case, for the recovery of any loss or damage they
may be subject to, or suffer by the executor or administrator whose
powers shall have been revoked as aforesaid.
(a) By 1818, ch. 217, any person
interested in the estate of any security of an
executor or administrator, may require counter security, &c. |
1816.
CHAP. 203.
When a joint administrator
apprehends
misconduct
on part of
any administrator
he may complain
to court, &c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in the recess of
the sessions of
orphans courts the register of wills in the several counties of this
state, upon application, may receive inventories and accounts of
sales, examine vouchers, and state guardians, executors and administrators
accounts, subject to the review and final passage or
rejection by the orphans court. |
In recess of court
register may receive
inventories,
&c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the registers of
wills shall be
and are hereby authorised to take probats of accounts against deceased
persons estates that are proper to be brought before them,
or before the orphans court, for passage or settlement, in the respective
counties in which they act as registers, and to receive six
and one quarter cents for each probat so taken. |
—To take probats
against deceased's
estate. |
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CHAP. CCIV.
An Act to provide for the Payment of the Loans made by the State.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 356. |
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Benjamin Harwood, trustee for the state, be and he is hereby authorised
and directed, to transfer to such of the banks and individuals
who have loaned money to the state under a resolution of
May session, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, so much of
the exchange six per cent. stock of the United States of eighteen
hundred and twelve, as will amount to their respective claims as
aforesaid. |
Trustee authorised
to transfer
stock. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustee as
aforesaid shall not
be authorised, under this act, to make any transfers as aforesaid,
unless such banks and individuals are willing to receive the said
stock at the highest market price, but not less than par, in the discharge
of their respective claims; and that the trustee proceed immediately
after the passage of this act, to notify the respective
banks or individuals having claims as aforesaid, of his readiness
to transfer; and if any bank should refuse or neglect to receive
the transfer at the highest market price at the time of such notice,
then the trustee is hereby authorised to sell the same at the highest |
No transfer to be
made unless stock
is received at par. |
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