1316 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.
accounted for in a subsequent account; and all moneys received
for debts due the decedent shall be included in said account.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 5. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch 10, sec. 2. 1841, ch. 178,
sec. 3. 1874, ch. 155. 1884, ch. 470.
5. On the other side shall be stated the disbursements by him
made, viz: first, funeral expenses to be allowed at the discretion
of the court according to the condition and circumstances of the
deceased, not to exceed three hundred dollars; second, the debts:
of the deceased proved or passed, as herein directed, and paid or
retained; third, the ailowance for things lost or which have
perished without the party's fauh^ which allowance shall be
according to the appraisement; fourth, his commissions, which,
shall be at the discretion of the court not under two per cent.,
nor exceeding ten per cent, on the first twenty thousand dollars
of the estate, and on the balance of the estate not more than two
per cent.; fifth, his allowance for cost and extraordinary expenses,
(not personal) which the court may think proper to allow, laid
out in the recovery or security of any part of the estate; and the
court may allow him credit for live stock killed for the necessary
use of the family before a sale.
Scott o. Dorsey's Ex'r, 1 H. & J. 227. Eversfield v. Eversfield, 4 H. & J. 12,
Richardson v. Stansbury, 4 H. & J. 375. Haslett v. Glenn, 7 H. & J. 22,
McPherson's Adm'r v. Israel, 5 G. & J. 60. Evans v. Iglehart, 6 G & J. 171.
Lee v. Lee, 6 G. & J. 316. Thomas' Adm'x v. Frederick Co. School, 9 G. & J.
115. McKim v. Duncan, 4 Gill, 72. Ex Parte Young, 8 Gill, 286. Brown v.
Stewart, 4 Md. Ch 368. Mayo v. Bland, 4 Md. Ch 484. Parker.v. Grynn, 4
Md. 423. Plater v.Groome, 5 Md. 96. Bassett v.Miller, 8 Md. 548. Edelen
v. Edelen, 11 Md. 416. Lemmon v Hall, 20 Md 171. Billingslea v Henry,
20 Md 287. Brown v. Preston, 38 Md. 373. Est. of Grafton, 46 Md. 551.
Est. of Bailey, 47 Md 555. Shaeffer v. Shaeffer, 54 Md. 679. Handy v. Col-
lins, 60 Md. 229. Gaines v. Reutch, 64 Md. 517.
Ibid. sec. 6. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 14 sec. 5. 1847, ch. 230.
6. If anything be bequeathed to an executor by way of com-
pensation, no allowance of commissions shall be made unless the
said compensation shall appear to the court to be insufficient;
and if so it shall be reckoned in the commission to be allowed
by the court.
Ibid. sec. 7. 1823, ch. 131, sec. 1.
7. The orphans' courts are hereby authorized, wherever they
are satisfied that an agent has been employed in the administra-
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