1828

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 91.

three first days of the county courts of the first judicial dis-
trict for the transaction of equity business, and the act, en-
titled, An act for the transaction of equity business in the
county courts of the first judicial district, be and the same
are hereby repealed.

Judges when to

attend to transact

equity business

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the judges of the said court to attend for the transaction of
equity business at the court houses of the several counties
composing the first judicial district, on such days between
the regular terms of said courts as shall be appointed by the
said court; and the said days shall be appointed at the term
of each county court next after the passage of this act.

May exercise pow-
ers, &c

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said judges shall
hold, exercise and practise, all the powers and authorities
and jurisdiction, which the county courts now hold, exer-
cise and practise, under the several acts of assembly relating
to the equity jurisdiction of the several courts of this state.

Adjourned terms

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the judges of the said district, from time to time, to hold
adjourned terms of the said equity courts in the said dis-
trict, at such times to be by them appointed, as shall be ne-
cessary for the transaction of the business of the said court,
as often as the state of the docket may require the same, so
that each and every cause remaining on the trial docket at
the end of the term of such court, may be tried, or other-
wise disposed of, according to law.

CHAP. XCII.

Passed Feb 28, 1829

An Act to authorise the Orphans Court of Saint-Mary's
County to have perfected and recorded certain Papers
and Instruments of Writing left incomplete and un-
recorded by the late Register of Wills for the said
County.

Preamble

WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assem-
bly, by the orphans court of Saint-Mary's county, that there
are accounts, vouchers and exhibits, in the office of the re-
gister of wills for said county, which appear to have been
duly sworn to by executors, administrators and guardians,
before James Forrest, deceased, the late register of wills for
the said county, for statement, file and record by him; also
inventories and accounts of sales duly sworn to, and wills
proved, together with part of the proceedings of the court,
and other papers for file and record, and that the necessary
probates and proceedings have not been spread at large up-
on or annexed to, some of the said papers or instruments of
writing, and as it has become necessary, in many instances,
that the probates to the same should be written out and cer-
tified, with a view to the proper settlements of estates of