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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 137.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article ninety -three

of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Testamentary

Laws," sub-title "Orphans' Court," and to be called sec-

tion 227 A, authorizing the Governor to designate and

commission one of the three judges of the Orphans' Court

as chief judge, and to ratify and confirm the acts of the

Governor in making such designation, and issuing such

commissions, and vesting in each of said persons so des-

ignated and commissioned as chief judge, full power and

authority us such, and confirming all writs and other

process tesfed by them as such.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the following section be, and the same is

New

hereby added to article ninety-three of the Code of Public

section.

General Laws, title "Testamentary Laws," sub-title "Or-

phans' Court," to come in after section 227, and to be called

section 227 A.

227 A. The Governor shall, of the three persons elected

judges of the Orphans' Court in the several counties and the

Chief
Judge of

city of Baltimore, designate and commission one as chief

Orphans'

judge of his respective court, and all acts of the Governor

Court

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 judges so designated and

commissioned as 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 commissions issued, and full power and

authority are hereby vested in each of said judges so des-

ignated 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 respectively, are hereby declared

valid to all intents and purposes, as if this act had been in

force when the same were issued.

Effective.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15th, 1892.