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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

register shall notify the State's Attorney of the city

or county, who shall thereupon put the bond of such

executor or administrator in suit for the use of the

State ; and the said bond shall be liable therefor aa

for any other default of the principal obligor.

SEC. 101. Upon payment of the register, he shall

Give duplicate
receipts

give to the executor or administrator, duplicate re-

ceipts, one of which shall be forwarded by him to the

Treasurer, to be by him preserved, and copies thereof

shall be evidence in suits upon the bonds of the reg-

ister signing the same.

SEC. 102. The orphans' court, in fixing the com-

Shall make no
allowance.

missions of executors and administrators, -shall make

no allowance for the tax hereby imposed, it being

hereby intended' that the said tax shall be paid out

of said commissions, and not by the estate of the

deceased.

SEC. 103. If any person, being a resident of any

other State, district or territory of the United States,

His right or

or of any foreign country, shall die possessed of or

title thereto.

entitled to any of the public stocks or debt created

or issued upon the credit of this State, or of the

stock or debt created or issued upon the credit of

the City of Baltimore, or of the capital stock of any

joint stock company incorporated by the authority

of this State, his right or title thereto shall devolve

on his executor or administrator, duly constituted

and appointed as such by the law of the State, dis-

trict, territory or country, wherein he may have

resided at the time of his death, in the same manner

as if the said executor or administrator had been

duly constituted and appointed as such by the proper

authority in this State.

SEC. 104. Nothing contained in the preceding sec-

Construed.

tion shall deprive the courts of this State of their

authority to grant administration on the estate of

such deceased person ; and the right of a person so

appointed shall be preferred to the right of the for-

Proviso

eign executor or administrator; provided, the notice

of the claim of the domestic executor or adminis-

trator to such stock, be given to the proper officer

having charge of the stock book wherein such stock

is entered, and having authority to make or allow a,