ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 155.

AN ACT to repeal section two hundred and five (205,) of article

ninety-three (93,) of the Code of Public General Laws, title

"Testamentary Law," and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, and to add certain new sections to be known as "Sec-

tions 205 A and 205 B."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section two hundred and five (205,) of article ninety-three

Repeal

(93,) of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Testamentary

Law," be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following

enacted in lieu thereof, with additional new sections to be known

as "Sections 205 A and 205 B."

SEC. 205. Be it enacted, That the orphans' court or register of

wills of the city of Baltimore or the counties of the State as the

case may be, on granting letters testamentary, or of administra-

tion, or of collection, a warrant or warrants shall issue under the

seal of office, authorizing two persons of discretion, not related to

Appraisers

the deceased nor interested in the administration, to appraise the

goods, chattels and personal estate of the deceased known to them,

or to be shown by the executor, or administrator, or collector.

SEC. 205. A. Be it enacted, That the two persons to appraise

the estate as mentioned in section two hundred and five shall be

nominated to the court or register of wills as the case may be, by

How ap-
pointed

the executor, administrator or collector and their warrants to ap-

praise shall issue on the approval of their appointment by the

court or register of wills as the case may be; provided, however,

that nothing contained in this section shall apply to the orphans'

court or register of wills of the city of Baltimore.

SEC. 205 B. And be enacted, That said apppraisers shall receive a

per diem of not more than two dollars a day for the time they are

actually engaged in 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 actu-

Per diem.

ally engaged in said appraisement with the orphans' court or

register of wills as the case may be, and after said sworn state-

ment is approved by said court or register of wills as the case may

be; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section

shall apply to the orphans' court or register of wills of the city

of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective

the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1890.