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to retain any portion of such commissions, and his bond shall be responsi-
ble for failure to make such application.

Since this section and secs. 253 and 255 make provision for proceedings against
delinquent administrators or co-administrators, equity will not interpose in such
cases. Whiting v. Whiting, 64 Md. 161; Linthicum v. Polk, 93 Md. 94.
This section applied. Kealhofer v. Emmert, 79 Md. 250.
See notes to sec. 235.

An. Code, sec. 230. 1904, sec. 229. 1888, sec. 226. 1846, ch. 279.

237. The purchase money of land, sold by a decedent and conveyed
by his administrator after his death received by the administrator, shall
be returned as a separate debt due the estate of the decedent..

This section referred to in construing sec. 82—see notes thereto. Grant Coal Co. v.
Clary, 59 Md. 444.
See notes to sec. 232.

Orphans' Court.

An. Code, sec. 231. 1904, sec. 230. 1888, sec. 227. 1865, ch. 169. 1892, ch. 465. 1898, ch. 256.
1900, ch. 68. 1918, ch. 471, sec. 231. 1920, ch. 343.

238. The Judges of the Orphans' Court of the several counties shall
receive the sum of four dollars for every day's attendance upon the ses-
sion of said court, to be paid at least as often as at the end of each and
every quarter after the qualification of said judges by the counties, pro-
vided that St. Mary's and Montgomery Counties be exempt from the pro-
visions of this section. The Judges of the Orphans' Court shall receive six
dollars for every day's attendance upon the sessions of said Orphan's
Court for Montgomery County, to be paid by the county at the end of
each and every quarter after the qualification of said judges. The Judges
of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City to be paid by the City of Balti-
more at the end of each and every month and the sessions of said Orphans'
Court of Baltimore City shall continue from 11 A. M. to 3 P. M., if
necessary, for the transaction of business of the court, and provided that
all provisions of any public general law or any public local law inconsis-
tent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
See art. 4, sec. 40, et seq., of the Md. Constitution.

1920, ch. 71.

239. The judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall each
receive thirteen dollars for every day's attendance upon the sessions of
said Orphans' Court of Baltimore City, to be paid by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore at the end of each and every month, and the
sessions of said Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall continue from
11 o'clock A. M. to 3 o'clock P. M., if necessary, for the transaction of
the business of the Court.1

An. Code, sec. 232. 1904, sec. 231. 1892, ch. 137, sec. 227A.

240. The governor shall, of the three persons elected judges of the
orphans court in the several counties and the city of Baltimore, designate

1 Sec. 2 of ch. 71 of acts of 1920 repeals all laws inconsistent with said act.