1861.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 84.

CHAPTER 83.

Passed Aug;
5, 1861.

AN ACT to amend the ninety-third article, sec-
tion two hundred and fifty-three of the Code of
Public General Laws, relating to the bonds of
Registers of Wills,

Repealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section two hundred and fifty-
three, article ninety-three, of the Code of Public
General Laws, be and the same is hereby repealed,
and the following inserted in lieu thereof:

Bond.

The Register of Wills, in each county, before he
acts as such, shall give bond with two good and
sufficient securities, in the penal sum of seven thou-
sand dollars, payable to this State, conditioned for
the faithful performance of his said office of Regis-
ter of Wills, which bond shall be taken, and secu-
rities approved by the judges of the Orphans Court,
and recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit
Court, for the county in which the party so execu-
ting the bond shall live, or the Superior Court of
Baltimore city, if Register of said city, and every
Register shall renew his bond on or before the thir-
ty-first day of December, in every second year.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 84.

Passed Aug.
2, 1861.

A SUPPLEMENT to an Act entitled, an act to in-
corporate the Baltimore, Catonsville and Ellicott's
Mills Passenger Railway Company passed at
January session, 1860, chap. 34.

Authority to
purchase
lands.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Baltimore, Catonsville and
Ellicott's Mills Passenger Railway Company may
and shall be authorized to purchase and occupy,