70 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.
REGISTER OF WILLS.

The Act of August 5, 1861, ch. 83, repeals section 253, and substitutes the following

3. The Register of Wills, in each county, before he acts as
such, shall give bond with two good and sufficient securities, 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 ap-
proved by the judges of the Orphans' Court, and recorded in the
office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county in which
the party so executing the bond shall live, or the Superior Court
of Baltimore city, if register of said city, and every register shall
renew his bond on or before the thirty-first day of December, in
every second year.

The Act of 1862, ch. 269, amends and re-enacts section 268, as follows:

4. Every register shall return to the Comptroller on the first
Monday of June and December in every year, 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 render-
ed 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 sta-
tionery, official or contingent expenses, fuel 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 six months included in said
account which at the date of said account remain uncollected.

WIDOWS.

The Act of 1862, ch. 101, amends and re-enacts section 292, as follows

5. If the widow have no children and the decedent is sol-
vent, then the widow shall have the right to take and apply to
her own use such property to the said amount of one hundred