2968 ARTICLE 93.

Register of Wills.

An. Code, sec. 263. 1904, sec. 261. 1888, sec. 257. 1777, ch. 8, sec. 6. 1823, ch. 195, sec. 1.
1825, ch. 208, sec. 5. 1840, ch. 52. 1861, ch. 83.

272. The register of wills in each county 'and of the city of Baltimore,
before he acts as such, shall give bond with two good and sufficient securi-
ties in the penal sum of seven thousand dollars, payable to this State,
conditioned for the faithful performance of his said office of register of
wills, which bond shall be taken and securities approved by the judges of
the orphans' court and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
for the county, or the superior court of Baltimore city, as the case may be;
and every register shall renew his .bond on or before the thirty-first day of
December in every second year.

The register's bond is liable for collateral inheritance taxes and taxes on commis-
sions. Banks v. State, 60 Md. 309.

As to suits on bonds of registers of wills, see art. 75, secs. 20, 21 and 108.

As to counter security, see art. 90, sec. 5.

As to the fees chargeable by a register of wills, see art. 36, sec. 29.

See art. 4, sec. 41, Md. Constitution.

An. Code, sec. 264. 1904, sec. 262. 1888, sec. 258. 1823, ch. 195, sec. 2.

273. On default of any register of wills to execute the bond required
by the preceding section within the time therein prescribed, he shall be
subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars to be recovered by indictment
in the name of the State in the circuit court for the county in which he
shall reside; or, if he reside in the city of Baltimore, by indictment in the
criminal court of Baltimore.

An. Code, sec. 265. 1904, sec. 263. 1888, sec. 259/1823, ch. 195, sec. 3.

274. It shall be the duty of each register of wills to transmit to the
governor, on the first Monday of October next after the execution of said
bond, a certified copy thereof.

An. Code, sec. 266. 1904, sec. 264. 1888, sec. 260. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 15, sec. 9.

275. Each register shall diligently attend each meeting of the orphans'
court in his county or city, and under their direction make full and fair
entries of their proceedings, and also make a fair record in a strong bound
book or books of all wills proved before him or the said court, or authenti-
cated according to law, and of all other matters by law directed to be re-
corded in the said court or in his office; he shall make out and issue every
summons, process, or order of the court and shall in every respect act
under their control and direction as the clerk of a court of law is under
the direction of such court of law; and he shall give out and certify under
the seal'of the court any copy of any part of the proceedings in the court
or in his office which any person may demand, and he shall be entitled to
payment for any service done by him.according to the table of fees now or
hereafter settled by law.

This section referred to in deciding that a verbal order of court authorizing an

investment is not sufficient under sec. 251. Carlysle v. Carlysle, 10 Md. 448.
An administration account is required to be recorded by this section. Mitchell v.

Mitchell, 1 Gill, 82. As to vouchers upon which account is passed and also as to a

will, see Randall v. Hodges, 3 Bl, 480.