FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 107.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 68
of Article 93 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Testamentary Law," .sub-title "Administration Pendente
Lite."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 68 of Article 93 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Testamentary Law," sub-title
" Administration Pendente Lite," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows :

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Repeal.

68. In all cases where the validity of a will is or shall be
contested, letters of administration, pending such contest may,
in the discretion of the Orphans' Court, be granted to the
person named executor or to the person to whom the largest
portion of the personal estate may be bequeathed in such con-
tested will, or to the person who would be entitled to letters of
administration by law, as in cases of intestacy.

Approved March 21st, 1894.

Granting let-
ters of admin-
istration.

CHAPTER 108.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 2 and 5 of Article 12 of the
Code of Public General Laws, entitled "Bastardy and
Fornication," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections 2 and 5 of article 12 of the Code:
of Public General Laws of Maryland, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

2. But if the said person shall on oath discover the father
of such child, the justice shall discharge her, and shall cause to

Repeal.

be arrested and brought before him such father, if a resident
of the county, and shall cause him to give security in the sum
of eighty dollars ($80) to indemnify the county from all
charges that may arise for the maintenance of such child; and
upon the failure of such putative father to enter into security,

Father to
give security.