FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

ses should be decided by the orphans court, or referred to
third persons, with the assent of the parties, whether the
claim in dispute be made against the executor or adminis-
trator, or by the executor or administrator—therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the orphans court shall have power,
where an executor or administrator, as such, shall have
any claim or claims, against any person or persons, with the
consent of both parties, to be entered on their proceedings,
to arbitrate between such executor or administrator and
such person or persons, against whom such executor or ad-
ministrator may have any claim or claims, or the dispute
may, by the parties, be referred to any person or persons,

CHAP. 179.

Claims, etc.
to be referred
to arbitrament

approved by the orphans court.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That the provisions which
at the death of any testator, testatrix or intestate, shall have
been laid up for the consumption of his or her family, shall
not be sold by the executor or administrator, but shall re-
main for the use of the family of the deceased, and shall

Provisions—
not to be in-
cluded in ac-
count or sold

not be included in the inventory of the estate.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That any live stock which
shall be necessary for the use of the Family, may also be
killed for their use at any time before a sale of the estate
and the orphans court shall in the settlement of the account
of the executor, executrix or administrator, allow to him
her or their credit for such articles as may have been used
as aforesaid, provided, in the opinion of the said orphan

Live stock
may be killed
for family
use

court, the allowance claimed, be reasonable.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into
operation from and immediately after its passage.

When opera-
tive

CHAPTER 179.

An act to divorce Eliza A. Clark, of Frederick County,
from her husband Samuel C. Clark.

Passed March
1, 1842.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Eliza A. Clark, be, and she is hereby divorced from
her husband Samuel C. Clark, a vinculo matrimonii.

Divorced