LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1843

State of Ohio, and for whom, being under the age of
twenty-one years, a guardian is about to be appointed in said
State of Ohio. And whereas, the executor of said Joseph
Elder, deceased, is anxious to pay over, and the guardian
to be appointed, is willing to receive the estate of said
devisee, and their Being no objections on the part of the
friends of said devisee, but on the contrary all beleiving
that his interest would be thereby greatly promoted.
Therefore,

CHAP. 208.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be lawful for the executor of the last will and
testament of Joseph Elder, deceased, to pay over the
estate of the said Albert Joseph Elder, minor devisee of

Executor to
pay over.

said Joseph Elder, deceased, to the guardian to be appoin-
ted in the State of Ohio, provided a copy of said guardian
bond, legally authenticated, shall be recorded in the office
of the Register of Wills of Frederick county, and provi-
ded however, that nothing herein contained shall be so con-
strued, so as to exempt the executor aforesaid, from the
necessity of having his accounts first settled by the Orphans
Court of Frederick county, as by law now directed.

Provisoes.

CHAPTER 208.

A further supplement to the act entitled, an act for the
general valuation and assessment of property in [his
State, and to provide a tax to pay the debts of the Stale,
passed at March session eighteen hundred and forty-one,
chapter twenty-three.

Passed March
1, 1844.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in the several counties of this State,
Howard District and the City of Baltimore, wherein collec-
tors of the taxes now imposed or to be imposed by law,
shall not have been appointed, or having been appointed,
have failed or refused to qualify and discharge the duties of
their appointments as required by law, it shall and may be
lawful for the Governor, and he is hereby authorised and
required, on the first day of May next, or as soon there-
after, as conveniently may be, to appoint a collector or col-
lectors for such county, district or city, as the case may
be, and the collector or collectors so to be appointed, shall
give bond to be executed by him or them, with their suri-
ties, and approved by the Governor or some judge of the
county court, for which the collector or collectors may be
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Where collec-
tors are not
chosen, the
Governor to
appoint