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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

granted; and, provided, that nothing in this section shall be

so construed as to prevent the citizens of Dorchester and Wi-

comico Counties from using the waters of Nanticoke river in

Proviso.

common; and provided, also, that nothing in this Act shall

affect or change the time for taking or catching oysters with

rakes or tongs in the waters of Choptank river as now es-

tablished by law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts

inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 573.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money for work performed

by Register of Wills of Anne Arundel County in indexing

the proceedings and inventories of estates of decedents in

the Prerogative Court of the Province of Maryland, and

for the transfer of all Wills, Prerogative Court Records,

Documents, Books, Indexes and all the records and docu-

ments belonging to the State of Maryland, now in the Reg-

ister of Wills' office of Anne Arundel County to the Land

Office of Maryland.

WHEREAS, When the Capitol of the Province of Maryland

Prerogative

was removed from St. Mary's City to Annapolis, all the pro-

court.

ceedings of the Prerogative Court were removed to the office

of the Register of Wills of Anne Arundel County; and

WHEREAS, Under the Provincial and Colonial Government

Setting of

of Maryland all testate and intestate estates were settled in the

former estates

Prerogative Court and the Records of Proceedings, until

the independence of the Colonies was achieved and Maryland

became an independent State, are all in the Register of Wills'

office of Anne Arundel County ; and

WHEREAS, Indexes of the Wills, Appraisements and Proceed-

Indexes.

ings of said court have been made at different times and paid

for by the State of Maryland ; and