TESTAMENTARY LAW. 1227
Orphans' Court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 238. 1912. 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. 1931, ch. 131.

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 session
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, provided
that St. Mary's¹ and Montgomery counties be exempt from the provisions
of this section. The Judges of the Orphans' Court shall receive eight
dollars for every day's attendance upon the sessions of said Orphans'
Court for Montgomery County, not to exceed one thousand dollars in any
twelve-month period, to be paid by the county at the end of each and
every month after the qualification of said judges. The Judges of the
Orphans' Court of Baltimore City to be paid by the City of Baltimore
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 incon-
sistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 239. 1920, ch. 71. 1927, ch. 151.

239. The Judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall each
receive the sum of sixteen 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, 1924, sec. 243. 1912, sec. 235. 1904. sec. 234. 1888, sec. 230. 1798, ch. 101,
sub-ch. 15, sec. 1. 1896, ch. 246. 1908. ch. 125. 1931, ch. 437.

243. The court shall have full power to take probate of wills, grant
letters testamentary and of administration, direct the conduct and account-
ing of executors and administrators, |pass such orders as in their discretion
may be required in the- course of me administration of estates for the
transfer of personal property, both tangible and intangible, the title to
which is not in dispute, superintend the distribution of estates of intestates,
secure the rights of orphans and legatees and administer justice in all
matters relating to the affairs of deceased persons, also of persons sup-
posed to be dead, under the following conditions: (a) Whenever letters
testamentary or of administration are applied for on the estate of any
person supposed to be dead on account of uninterrupted absence for above
seven years from the place of last domicile within the State and having
been for such time unheard of, the court, if satisfied that the person
applying therefor, or presenting a will or codicil of the supposed decedent

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 151 of the acts of 1927 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.