PRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Register of Wills of any county or of the city of Baltimore

where any will shall have been filed for probate, or any

All

deputy of his when directed so to do by an order of the

witnesses
to wills

Orphans' Court may examine and take the deposition of any

to be
examined.

or all of the witnesses thereto who from any cause cannot

conveniently attend at the office of said Register of Wills,

wherever he may find such witness, or witnesses, whether

within the State of Maryland or beyond its jurisdictions, pro-

vided that before the original will is taken from the office of

said Register of Wills for the purpose of being so proved, the

said register shall cause to be made out and filed among the

records of his court, a copy of said will duly certified under

the seal of his court ; and the probate of any will so taken

shall have the same effect and be as valid as if all of the

witnesses thereto had appeared before and been examined

by the Orphans' Court or the Register of Wills of the county

or city where the same had been filed for probate and record,

provided further that the Orphans' Court may in their dis-

Proviso.

cretion, accept proof of any will, in the manner prescribed

in section 337 of this article, when the attendance of the

witnesses thereto cannot, in the judgment of the said court

be conveniently had.

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

Effective

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 10th, 1892.

CHAPTER 82.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Dor-

chester County to borrow money on the credit of the

county for the purpose of repairing the bridge across Cam-

bridge Creek iu the town of Cambridge in said county, to

place an iron draw therein, to give their bonds or bills

obligatory for the payment of the same, and to levy taxes

on the assessable property of said county to redeem said

bonds or bills obligatory and to pay the interest thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Dorchester

County be and they are hereby authorized and empowered

County

to contract for the repairing of the bridge across Cambridge

Commis-
sioners of

Creek in the town of Cambridge in said county, and the

Dorchester

placing of an iron draw therein, so as to provide better

County
may repair

facilities for navigation as well as for the safety of the

bridge.

public in passing over said bridge, and also to improve said