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Session Laws, 1826 Session
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JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826.

For alphabteting every instrument, proceeding, paper,
or other matter, recorded in, the office, and eadors-
ing or entering thereon a certificate referring to the
record, other than alphabets to the dockets of cita-
tions and attachments, 6 1/4 cts,
For any other services, matters or things, not herein
particularly specified or provided for, the same fees
as are allowed and established for like or similar
Services provided for in this table or bill of fees.

CHAP 247

Registers of Wills

7. And be it enacted, That whenever any person or persons
shall apply to any orphans court, or register of wills, for a sum-
mons or citation to issue against any person or persons, for any
cause whatever, to appear before the orphans court, the persons so
ordering the summons or citation shall be liable, in the first in-
stance, for all the costs on such proceedings, and on the final is-
sue and determination thereof, the orphans court may, at their
discretion, pass an order or decree directing the adverse party
to pay. or reimburse the said costs.

Persons applying
for summons to
issue, to. be an-
swerable for costs
&c.

8. And be it enacted, That in stating the account of an ex-
ecutor, administrator or collector, it shall not be necessary to
spread upon the said account, to recite or enter therein, all or
any of the items or particulars contained in the inventory, or
account of sales, of the goods, chattels or personal estate, of the
deceased person; but the executor, administrator or collector,
as the case may be, shall be charged with the inventory or in-
ventories, sale or sales, by being debited with the amount there-
of respectively, as the particular circumstances of the case may
or doth require; and the said executor, administrator or collec-
tor, shall be answerable for the said goods, chattels or property,
according to the appraisement thereof, until the same shall have
been duly sold, or regularly distributed, according to law.

In stating account
not necessary to
spread inventory

&c.

9. And be it enacted. That no register of wills within this
state shall ask, demand, take or receive, from any person what-
ever, any fee, gratuity, gift or reward, for giving his advice or
counsel in any matter or thing relative to his office, under the
penalty of one hundred dollars current money, for every of-
fence.

Not to receive any
fee, &c for giving
advice

10. And, for the purpose of preventing the unnecessary ac-
cumulation of costs, and to diminish the expenses on judicial
proceedings, Be it enacted. That from and after the time pre-

scribed for the commencement of the operation of this act, the
respective clerk of the court of appeals for the western and
eastern shores, the register of the court of chancery, the clerks
of the several county courts in this state, and the clerk of Bal-
timore city court, shall not record at full length, of make up a
complete record of the proceedings in any action, suit or prose-
cation, civil, equitable or criminal, or of any verdict, judgment
or deeree, thereafter to be had or rendered, in any of the said
courts, nor transcribe into record books the minutes and short
docket entries of any such action, suit, prosecution, verdict,
judgment or decree, wherein the proceedings were not required
to be so recorded and made up completely and at full length, as
heretofore prescribed and directed by law; neither shall any of
the said officers charge or receive any fee or fees whoever

Officers not to re-
cord at length
proceedings, &c



 
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