A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

lars, to be collected and paid for the use of the
State.

107

Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

CHAPTER 101.

AN ACT to amend section two hundred and nine-
ty-two of Article ninety-three of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws entitled, "Testamentary Law"
providing that in all cases of administration the
widow shall have the right to take and apply to
her own use a certain amount of the personal
property.

Passed March
5, 1862.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section two hundred and nine-
ty-two of Article ninety-three of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws entitled, "Testamentary Law,"
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Amended.

292. If the widow have no children and the de-
cedent is solvent, then the widow shall have the
right to take and apply to her own use such pro-
perty to the said amount of one hundred and fifty
dollars, under the provisions of the last preceding
section; but if the widow have no children and the
decedent is insolvent, then the widow shall only
be allow to take and apply to her own use such
property to the amount of seventy-five dollars.

Eights of
widow having
no children, in
respect to pro-
perty, &c.