1346 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

aforesaid, shall be sufficient to authorize the administrator to pay-
as aforesaid.

P. G L , (1860,) art. 93, sec. 95. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 9, sec 12.

94. When any affidavit or depositions to prove claims shall
have been taken out of the State, the same shall be good if taken
and certified as aforesaid by the notary of the place, or by some
person there authorized to administer an oath, and certified to be
such under the seal of the governor or mayor, or chief magistrate
or clerk of any court of record, or notary public of such place;
and the said oath shall be as available as if taken before a justice
of the peace within this State.

Ibid. sec. 96. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 9. sec. 14.

95. If the creditor be an administrator, the claim shall not be
received, although vouched or approved as aforesaid, unless he
make oath to be certified as aforesaid, "that it does not appear
from any book, or writing of his decedent, that any part of the
said claim hath been discharged, except what (if any) is credited,
and that to the best of the deponent's knowledge ond belief no
part of the said claim hath been discharged, and no security or
satisfaction given for the same, except what (if any) is credited.

Watson v. Watson, 56 Md 442.

Ibid. sec. 97. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 9, sec. 19.

96. In no case shall an administrator be allowed to retain for
his own claim against the decedent, unless the same be passed by
the orphans' court, and every such claim shall stand on an equal
footing with other claims of the same nature.

Scott v. Dorsey's Ezrs , 1 H. & J. 227. Turner v Bouchell's Exrs., 3 H. &
J. 99. Spedden o. State, 3 H. & J. 251. Carman v. Turner, 6 H. & J. 65.
Scott v. Burch, 6 H. & J. 67. Gist v. Cockey, 7 H. & J. 134. Collinson v.
Owens, 6 G. & J. 4. Evans v. Iglehart, 6 G. & J. 171. Lee v. Lee, 6 G. & J.
316. Stevenson v. Shriver, 9 G. & J 324. McCormick v. Gibson, 10 G. & J.
108. Owings v. Owings, 10 G. & J. 268. Stockett v. Jones, 10 G. & J. 276.
State v. Reigart, 1 Gill, 1. Watkins v. Dorsett, 1 Bl. 530. Ellicott v. Welch, 2
Bl. 242. Tessier v. Wyse, 3 Bl. 28. Randall v Hughes, 3 Bl. 477. Semmes
v. Young's Admrs., 10 Md. 242. Hesson v. Hesson, 14 Md. 8. Billingsley v.
Henry, 20 Md. 282.