THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

be a full set off to, and forever bar the collection of such
claims.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall continue
and be in force until the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and forty-eight.

CHAPTER 147.

CHAP. 147.

In force until

1848.

A bill entitled, a further supplement to the act entitled,
an act for amending and reducing into system the laws

and regulations concerning last Wills and Testaments,
the duties of Executors, Administrators and Guar-
dians, and the rights of orphans and other deceased
persons, passed at November session, seventeen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, chapter one hundred and one.

Passed Feb.
25, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That whenever any executor or executors,
or administrator or administrators hath given, or may
hereafter give notice to creditors to bring in their claims
against his, her, or their testator or intestate, pursuant to
an order of the orphans court of any of the counties or
of Howard District, in this State, passed for that pur-
pose, it shall and may be lawful for such executor or
executors, administrator or administrators, to report to
such orphans court passing such order, the fact of having
given such notice pursuant to said order, verified by the
affidavit of such executor or executors, administrator or
administrators; and on the said orphans court being sa-
tisfied that the said order hath been complied with, and
the notice given as therein directed, it shall be the duty
of the said orphans court to endorse on said report their
certificate, that it hath been proven to their satisfaction
that said notice bath been given as therein reported, and
to order the said report and certificate to be recorded
among the records of such court.

Executor, he.
may give no-
tice, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said report and
certificate shall be prima facie evidence in all cases what-
ever, of the giving of such notice as therein stated.

Prima facie

evidence.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a copy of said
report, certificate and order, under the seal of the
register of wills of the county, in whose office such re-
port, certificate and order are recorded, shall be legal
and competent evidence.

Copy, &c. to
be legal evi-
dence.