ART. 93] ORPHANS' COURT. 2029

said orphans' court of Baltimore city, to be paid by the city of
Baltimore at the end of each and every month, and the sessions
of said orphans' court of Baltimore city shall continue from
11 A. M. to 3 P. M., if necessary, for the transaction of the
business of the court, and provided that all provisions of any
public general law or any public local law inconsistent here-
with be and the same are hereby repealed.

1892, ch. 137, sec. 227 A.

231. The governor shall, of the three persons elected judges
of the orphans' court in the several counties and the city of
Baltimore, 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 gov-
ernor to said judges so designated and commissioned as the
chief judge of his respective court are hereby ratified and
confirmed to all intents and purposes as if this section had
been in full force when such designations were made and com-
missions issued, and full power and authority are hereby
vested in each of said judges so designated and commissioned
as chief judge to act as such chief judge, and all writs and
other process tested in the names of said chief judges respec-
tively are hereby declared valid to all intents and purposes, as
if this section had been in force when the same were issued.

1888, art. 93, sec. 228. 1860, art. 93, sec. 228. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 15, sec 8.

232. The orphans' court, unless a different time is pre-
scribed by the local law, shall be held in each county and the
city of Baltimore, at the usual place of holding the court of
said county or city, on the second Tuesday in every month of
February, April, June, August, October and December, and
oftener if need be, according to its own adjournment; and any
one of the judges of the said court, in the absence of the
others shall have power to hold the said court at a stated
time of adjournment only for the purpose of adjourning; any
two of them shall have full power to do any act which the
said court is or shall be authorized by law to perform, and
any two of them shall have power to hold the court on any
day not named in an adjournment, on the application of any
person having pressing business in the said court; provided,
notice thereof be given to all, and in such case the register
shall record that such notice hath been given.