1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 164.

CHAPTER 163.

Passed March
2, 1860.

AN ACT to amend the one hundred and seventh
section of the eightieth article of the Code of
Public General Laws, which requires the Or-
phans' court to fix the commissions of executors
in all cases, whether claimed by the executor or
not, and to substitute therefor, a section provid-
ing that where an executor shall renounce his
commissions, he shall not be taxed thereon.

Executors'
commissions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the several Orphans' courts
shall fix the commissions of executors within twelve
months from the grant of administration, and in
all subsequent accounts wherein executors shall
charge themselves with further assetts; but where
an executor shall renounce his commissions, or re-
lease the same in favor of the widow or next of heir
of the deceased, the tax mentioned in the preceding
section shall not be charged; and where an execu-
tor elects, to take less than five per cent, commis-
sions, (as he may do) the said tax shall be charged
only on the commissions he shall elect to take.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the one hundred
and seventh section of the eightieth article of the
Code of Public General Laws, which requires the
Orphans' courts to fix the commissions of executors
in all cases whether claimed or not, be and the

In force.

same is hereby repealed, and that this act take
effect from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 164.

Passed March
1, 1860.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, an act to in-
corporate the Green Spring Avenue Company,
passed January session eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight, chapter two hundred sixteen.

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a company be incorporated