ORPHANS COURTS |
INDEX TO THE LAWS.
The justices of the orphans court,
or any two, either
in or out of court, empowered to take sheriffs bonds
as
the chief or associate justices were before empowered,
and as the judges of the courts then established might,
May qualify the sheriffs at the time of taking the
bonds, in the same manner as the county courts, and
transmit a certificate thereof to the county clerks,
Former qualifications before them declared valid,
Appeals from the orphans courts to
the former general
court or court of appeals, transferred to the court
then established,
Petit jurymen in the orphans courts
allowed two dollars
per day, but not to extend to Baltimore, Allegany,
Harford, Calvert, Somerset, and Frederick counties,
The orphans courts, on application
of securities for
guardians, may call on them to give counter security,
On failure, may revoke the appointment, and appoint
a new guardian,
May compel the delivery over of the property to
such new guardian, by attachment, and direct the bond
to be put in suit,
Similar provisions authorised against
executors or
administrators,
The delivery over may be enforced
by attachment,
sequestration and imprisonment,
The orphans courts empowered to appoint
guardians
to infants acquiring property by gift or purchase, as
if
by descent, devise, or in a course of distribution,
Regulations concerning the registers
fees for entering
the appearance of the state,
The orphans courts may have the children
of paupers
or vagrants brought before them and bound out
as apprentices, as also the children of lazy indolent
free negroes,
When a distribution of specific articles
is to be made
the orphans courts to appoint two disinterested persons,
not related, to make the same,
If they return that an equal distribution
cannot be
made, a sale to be ordered, &c.
Discretionary power as to granting
administration,
where a will is contested,
No member of the orphans court to
be a commissioner
of the tax,
Surgical aid to be administered gratis
by the institution
in Baltimore to persons producing certificates
from the orphans courts that they are objects of charity,
The orphans courts to direct what
stock, or other
permanent lands, the proceeds of the sales of infants
lands, and the surplus interest under this act, shall
be
vested in by the guardians,
The said stock to be transferable only
by an order of
the orphans court,
The orphans courts to approve the
securities in the
bonds required from natural guardians, or those appointed
by will,
May empower guardians to sell leasehold estates
of their wards, the proceeds to be invested in bank
stock, &c. under their direction, in the name of
the infants,
No sale to be valid without the concurrence
of the
said courts,
Proceedings directed in case of the
death of an executor
or administrator before an account is settled,
Proceedings authorised in cases of
complaint by a
joint administrator,
Powers of the registers in the recess,
as to inventories,
accounts, probats, &c. |
Session. Ch. S.
1806 16
1815
62
1805
65 8
1807
79
136
2
3
1817 178
1807 139
4
5
1808
54
1810
34 5
6
1812 191
4
1815
30 4
1816 154
5
6
7
203
1
2
3
4
5
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