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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

General Laws, entitled, "Testamentary Law," be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Entry of claims
against dece-
dents.

114. The Register of Wills shall enter in a suit-
able book, to be provided by him for that purpose,
all claims against a decedent, in regular order, as
they are passed by the Orphans' Court or Register
of Wills, giving the date of the passage, the name
of the creditor, the character of such claim, whether
open account, note, bond, bill obligatory, judg-
ment, or other evidence of debt, and the amount
thereof; if an open account, the interest due there-
on up to the date of the passage, shall be stated
separately; if a note, bond, bill obligatory, judg-
ment, or other evidence of debt, the date thereof,
and the date from which interest begins to run,
shall also be stated, and other particulars of such
claims ; and the entry of a claim upon such book
shall be taken as notice to the administrator of its
existence; and as the Register of Wills shall be en-
titled to receive, for making such entry of each
claim, the sum of ten cents, to be paid by the
claimant.

CHAPTER 143.

Passed Feb.
27, 1862.

AN ACT to provide means for the defence of the
State of Maryland, by raising by a loan, to be
called the "Maryland Defence Loan, "an amount
sufficient to pay the State's proportion of the
United States' Direct Tax, levied or to be levied
for the purpose of suppressing rebellion and
maintaining the integrity of the Union.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The Government of the United States is
now engaged in a war forced upon it by the se-
ditious and unlawful a'cts of those who have at-
tempted its overthrow by violence, and it is only
by the vigorous and successful prosecution of
that war, upon the part of said Government,
that the State of Maryland can be protected
from hostile invasion, and the lives and property