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o'clock without having lunch. There is a tremendous
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amount of work in the Orphans Court. I will read or
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give you just some of our work, the amounts. In 1966-67,
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in real estate docket , 40 cases. There will be 165 court
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docket cases that will be tried and finished. There will
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be over 140 citation docket cases. There will be in
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excess of 2500 estates, intestate and testate. You can
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understand you will have maybe two or three accounts in
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each estate, you can understand you will have a real
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inventory, personal inventory, reports of sale, list of
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debts, claims docket, et cetera. There will be more than
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800 letters of guardianships. Out of those 800 letters
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of guardianships, we have a minimum of hundreds, maybe
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thousands subject to further order of the Orphans Court.
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That is where a minor child, female or male, under twenty-
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one years of age is entitled to money. The book is
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deposited in a savings bank subject to order of the
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Orphans Court of Baltimore City. Before any moneys
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can be drawn, one of the Judges interviews each child
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or parent that comes in and we then make up our mind if
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they should be allowed a hundred dollars, two hundred
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