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said appraisement, said per diem to be paid out of the estate of
the decedent after said appraisers have filed an itemized sworn
account of the number of days they were actually engaged in
said appraisement, with the orphans' court or register of wills, as
the case may be, and after said sworn statement is approved by
said court or register of wills, as the case may be; provided, how-
ever, that nothing contained in this section shall apply to the
Orphans' Court or register of wills of the city of Baltimore.

1890, ch. 51.

215 A. Whenever after issues granted any party thereto dies,
the court to which they are sent may admit as a party to such
issues the proper representative, whether as to realty or per-
sonalty, namely, devisee, heir, executor or administrator of the
party so dying in the place of such party, and the orphans'
courts shall have the same right at any time after filing a petition
before the issues are sent.

Orphans' Court.

1892, ch. 465. 1898, ch. 256.

227. The judges of the orphans' court of the several counties
shall each receive the sum of four dollars, and the judges of the
Orphans' Court of Baltimore city shall receive nine dollars for
every day's attendance upon the sessions of said court, to be paid
by the counties and the city of Baltimore, respectively; pro-
vided, that in Allegany and St. Mary's counties said judges shall
not lose said per diem, if prevented from attending the session
of said court by reason of an actual bona fide sickness such as
renders them unable to attend to the ordinary pursuits of life.
In Baltimore city the sessions of the court shall continue from
11 A. M. to 3 P. M. if necessary for the transaction of the busi-
ness of the court.

1892, ch. 137.

227 A. The Governor shall, of the three persons elected judges
of the orphans' court in the several counties and the city of Bal-
timore, designate and commission one as chief judge of his
respective court, and all acts of the Governor in designating one
of said judges as chief judge, and in commissioning him as such,
and all commissions heretofore issued by the Governor to said