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Dollars ($20,000.00) of the estate, and on the balance of
the estate not more than two per cent; third, the widow's
allowance as in this article directed to be paid; fourth, all
taxes due by his decedent; fifth, charges for medical attend-
ance, including nursing attendance in last illness, to be al-
lowed at the discretion of the Court according to the condi-
tions and circumstances of the deceased, not to exceed One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00), not more than Fifty Dollars
($50.00) of which shall be paid to the physician or physicians
furnishing said medical attendance and not more than Fifty
Dollars ($50.00) of which shall be paid to the nurse or nurses
furnishing said nursing attendance; sixth, the allowance for
things lost or which have perished without the party's fault,
which allowance shall be according to the appraisement;
seventh, debts of the deceased proved or passed in the follow-
ing order, (a) claims for rent in arrears against deceased
persons, for which a distress might be levied by law, but not
for a period of more than three months; (b) claims for wages,
salaries or commissions to clerks, servants, salesmen or em-
ployees contracted not more than three months prior to
decedent's death, and claims founded on judgments and de-
crees, (c) all other just claims. If there be not sufficient to
discharge all such judgments and decrees, a proportionate
dividend shall be made between the judgment and decree
creditors.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 512.
(House Bill 674)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 173
of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Testamentary Law", sub-title "Guardian and
Ward", relating to the sale by guardians of the fee simple
real estate or annual ground rents of his ward.

WHEREAS, It is doubtful, under the present law, whether
the Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) limitation mentioned
therein refers to all the fee simple real estate and annual
ground rents owned by the ward or only to the particular
part to be sold; and