1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 222.

this State to require and compel every executor or ad-
ministrator to whom they or the register of wills of their
county may have granted letters testamentary or of
administration, to return his inventory or inventories,
and render his administration accounts to such court
at the time or times required by law and in case any
executor or administrator shall fail to do so, his letters
testamentary or administration may in the discretion of
each court be revoked, and the court may if there be
no remaining executor or administrator of the deceased,
appoint a new administrator.

Registers pay-
ments when to
be made.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the returns and
payments of register of wills on account of the tax im-
posed by the act of eighteen hundred and forty-four,
chapter two hundred and thirty-seven, and its supple-
ments, shall hereafter be made at the time, in the man-
ner and under the penalties prescribed by the second
and third sections of the act of eighteen hundred and
forty-five, chapter seventy-one, and the commissions
allowed to said registers upon such payments shall be
the same as are fixed by the third section of the said
last mentioned act.

Not to allow
commission on
real estate.

SEC. 13. Be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall
be so construed as to allow to the executor or adminis-
trator any commission on the amount of the real estate
returned in the aforesaid inventory or inventories.

Repealed.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the fourth section
of the act of eighteen hundred and forty-four, chapter
two hundred and thirty-seven, and the second, third and
fourth sections of the act of eighteen hundred and forty-
five, chapter two hundred and two, and so much of the
second section of the act of eighteen hundred and for-
ty-four, chapter two hundred and thirty-seven, as
makes it the duty of executors and administrators to
lodge certain information with the levy court or com-
missioners of the county or Howard district or the ap-
peal tax court of Baltimore, be and the same are here-
by repealed.