TESTAMENTARY LAW. 1231

Cited but not construed in Collins v. Cambridge Hospital, 158 Md. 114; Longer-
beam v. Iser, 159 Md. 246; Greenhawk v. Quimby, Daily Record, March 19, 1935.

This section referred to in construing sec. 252. Hopper v. Hopkins, 162 Md.
452.

Register of Wills.
272.

As to returns by registers of wills of assessable property, see art. 81, sec. 35.
As to the duty of registers of wills re collateral inheritance taxes, see art. 81,
sec. 127, et seq.

276.

Failure of docket to show that court fixed penalty of bond under sec. 42.
See notes to sec. 42. State v. Talbott, 148 Md. 80.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 286. 1912, sec. 277. 1904, sec. 274. 1888, sec. 270. 1853, ch. 444,
sec. 23. 1862, ch. 269. 1931, ch. 426. Const., art. 15, sec. 1. 1935, ch. 113.

286. Every register shall annually return to the comptroller a full and
accurate account of all his fees, emoluments and receipts, and of all the
expenses incident to his office, and such account shall be rendered under
oath, and in such form, and shall be supported by such proofs as shall be
prescribed by the comptroller; and every register shall render with his
accounts of the expenses incident to his office a list of the clerks employed
by him, stating the rate of compensation allowed to each,, and the duties
which they severally perform, and also an account of the sums paid for
stationery, official or contingent expenses, f n el and other things, and
stating the purposes for which said expenses are applied; and in the
account of fees there shall be a separate statement of all those fees charged
during the year included in said account which at the date of said account
remain uncollected; and every such Register of Wills, the emoluments of
whose office shall not amount to the sum of three thousand dollars in any
one year, as aforesaid, may present a statement to the County Commis-
sioners of his county, under oath, showing the net proceeds of his office,
together with a statement of the cost of the necessary record books, sta-
tionery, contingent and office expenses and fuel used in his office up to
the first Monday in June in each year; and the said County Commissioners
are hereby authorized and empowered to pay or levy for the use of said
Register of Wills the amount of said books, stationery, contingent and
office expenses and fuel, as aforesaid; provided, the County Commissioners,
of Harford County shall and they are hereby directed to levy for the use
of the Register of Wills of said County, a sum sufficient to reimburse said
Register of Wills for the aforesaid expenses; provided, that the amount so
paid or levied shall not, when added to the net proceeds of his office, exceed
the sum of three thousand dollars.

Sales.

290.

Orphans' Court given authority by this section to prescribe length of notice
of sale; inadequacy of price; sale upheld. Knapp v. Knapp, 149 Md. 219.
Cited but not construed in Murray v. Hurst, 163 Md. 489.