JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 431

CHAPTER 268.
AN ACT to repeal the thirty-second section of article
ninety-three of the Code of Public General Laws
relating to " Testamentary Law," and to re-enact
the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the thirty-second section of ar- ticle ninety-three of the Code of Public General	Repealed and re-enacted.
Laws, relating to " Testamentary Law," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows :
SEC. 32. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, If the intestate be a married woman,
it shall not be necessary for the husband to take out	Not neces- sary to take
administration, but all her choses in action shall de-	out adminis-
volve on her husband, in the same manner as if he	tration.
had taken out such administration ; provided, that
if he shall not, in his life time, reduce the said choses
in action into possession, or obtain judgment thereon,
the said choses in action shall devolve on her repre-
sentatives, and administration may be granted ac-
cordingly ; and provided that in all cases where the
husband shall be entitled to a life estate only in the
property of his wife, at her death there shall be ad-
ministration on her estate, and the personal property shall be held subject to the order of the Orphans'	Personal propel by held subject to or-
Court, which shall have power to make all proper	der.
orders for the investment of such part of said estate
as consists of money. And the said Orphans' Court
shall have power to make all proper orders to pro-
tect the said personal property for the benefit of
children or others interested after the expiration of
the life estate.
Approved April 5, 1878.