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A Supplement to an Act, entitled, An Act to lay out and open a cer-
tain Road in Caecil County, passed the third day of January, eigh-
teen hundred and seven.
WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, that the time has expired within
which the levy court of Caecil county were by law empowered to carry said act into opera-
tion;
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Caecil county may,
if they are of opinion that the said road will be of public advantage, proceed in the same agreeable
to the provisions of the original act to which this is a supplement.
CHAP. XXXIII.
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An ACT to confirm an Act passed at November session, one thou-
sand eight hundred and nine, entitled, An Act to alter such parts
of the Constitution and Form of Government of this State as relate
to voters and qualification of voters.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and nine, entitled, An act to alter such parts of the constitution and form
of government of this state as relate to voters and qualification of voters, shall be and the same is
hereby confirmed.
CHAP. XXXIV.
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Passed Decem-
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A Further Supplement to the Act, entitled, An Act for the amending,
and reducing into system, the Laws and Regulations concerning
last Wills and Testaments, the duties of Executors, Administrators
and Guardians, and the rights of Orphans and other Representa-
tives of deceased persons.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That no nuncupative will hereafter to be
made shall be good, where the estate thereby bequeathed shall exceed the value of three hun-
dred dollars, that is not proved by the oaths of three witnesses at the least who were present at the
making thereof, nor unless it be proved that the testator, at the time of pronouncing the same, did
bid the persons present, or some of them, to bear witness that such was his will, or to that effect,
nor unless such nuncupative will were made in the time of the last sickness of the deceased, and in
the house of his or her habitation or dwelling, or where he or she hath been resident for the space
of ten days or more next before the making of such will, except where such person was surprised
or taken sick, being from his own home, and died before he or she returned to the place of his or
her dwelling.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That six months after the speaking of the pretended testamentary
words, no testimony shall be received to prove any will nuncupative, except the said testimony, or
the substance thereof, were committed to writing within six days after the making of the said will;
but any soldier, being in actual military service, or any mariner or seaman, being at sea, may dis-
pose of his moveables, wages and personal estate, as he or they might have done before the passing
of this act.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no will in writing concerning any goods or chattels, or per-
sonal estate, shall be repealed, nor shall any clause, devise or bequest therein, be altered or changed
by word of mouth only, except the same be in the life-time of the testator committed to writing,
and after the writing thereof read unto the testator, and allowed by him, and proved to be so done
by three witnesses at the least.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after the passage of this act, no devise, legacy or be-
quest, shall lapse or fail of taking effect by reason of the death of any devisee or legatee named in
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