GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall not be in

CHAP. 248.

force until the said Alexander first enters into a hond to the

state, in a penalty, and with security to he approved by

Bond required.

said county court, conditioned for the performance of the

duties prescribed by this act and required by said deed,

which said bond shall be lodged in the clerks office of said

court, to be by him recorded, and a copy of which, attest-

ed by him, under the seal of his court shall be evidence

to prove the execution of said bond, in any court in this

state.

CHAPTER 248.

An act to regulate the meetings of the Orphans' Court of

Passed Mar.10, 1832

Anne Arundel county.

Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-

Term fixed.

ryland, That the regular terms of the Orphan's Court of

Anne Arundel county, shall be held on the second Tuesday

in every month of February, April, June, August, October

and December, and the said court shall, by its adjournment,

if necessary for the despatch of business, be held on the

Tuesday of every week in the year, other than the weeks

of the regular terms.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said orphan's court

Hours fixed.

shall set for the transaction of business, from nine o'clock

A. M. until 3 o'clock, P. M., and the sessions of said court,

shall not at any time exceed one day, except at the regular

time of holding the county courts of said county, when the
said orphan's court may set during the whole term of said

Stipulation.

county court, if necessary for the despatch of business.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That the act to regulate the

Repealing clause

meeting of the orphan's court of Anne Arundel county,

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-

nine, chapter forty-three, be, and the same is hereby re-

pealed.

CHAPTER 249.

An act for the protection of Oysters in the waters of the

Passed,Mar. 7, 1832

Eastern Shore of this State.

WHERE AS, the protection of oysters in the waters of this
state is a subject in which the citizens thereof are deeply

Preamble.