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the said State Roads Commission may and shall continue to
carry out and perform all such lawful contracts heretofore
entered into as aforesaid before such transfer out of the said
sum of two hundred thousand dollars annually appropriated
as aforesaid, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The
State Roads Commission is hereby further authorized to con-
tinue to contract for such expenditures as the said Geological
and Economic Survey Commission might have contracted for.

SEC. 49. The provisions of this subtitle shall be regarded
as adding, to such an extent as may be necessary to enable it
to perform the additional duties hereinbefore imposed upon it,
to the powers and duties conferred upon said State Roads Com-
mission by the Act of the General Assembly of 108, Chapter
141.

SEC. 50. The provisions of Sections 33 to 49, as amended,
shall take effect from and after the date of the passage of this
Act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1910.

Approved April 7, 1910.

ARTICLE XCIII.

TESTAMENTARY LAW.

CHAPTER 580.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 38
and 40 of Article 93 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland of 1904, title "Testamentary Law," relating to
bonds of administrators and executors and fixing the penalty
thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 38 and 40 of Article 93 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Testamentary
Law," be and the same are hereby respectively repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

Section 38. Every administrator shall, before administration
shall be granted to him, execute a bond to the State of Mary-
land, with at least two sureties approved by the Court or
Register, in a penalty prescribed by them or him, or with a
surety corporation authorized by the laws of this State to
qualify upon such bonds, -and whenever the surety upon such
bond is a corporation so authorized to qualify as such, the
amount of the penalty of such bond shall be fixed by the Court
or Register in an amount not exceeding the probable value of