T. WATKINS L1GON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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causeways out of his individual means, and to hold,
keep and dispose of the said bridge and causeways as
his own private property, and to exercise all the rights,
powers and privileges which this act intended to grant
to the corporation to be thereby created.

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT to provide for the opening of a docket by
the Registers of Wills of this State, for the entry of
claims passed by the Registers and Orphans' Courts
against deceased persons,

Passed
Mar. 1, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That in all cases hereafter, when
letters testamentary or of administration, shall be grant-
ed by the Orphans' courts of the several counties of
this State, and the city of Baltimore, or the Registers of
Wills in the recess of said courts, it shall be the duty
of the Register of Wills of the respective county or city,
to enter in a suitable book to be provided by him for
that purpose all claims against such testator or intestate
as they are regularly passed, giving the dale of passage,
the name of the creditor, the character of such claim,
whether note or open account, bond, bill obligatory,
judgment and other evidences of debt, and the amount
thereof, and the entry of a claim upon such docket,
shall be taken and considered as notice to the execu-
tor or administrator of its existence.

Duty of Re-
gister of Wills.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the claims thus
entered as aforesaid, shall not afford any evidence as to
the justice or correctness of any debt therein entered,
whenever the same shall be controverted by any exe-
cutor or administrator in any suit instituted for the re-
covery of such debt, nor shall the same be construed
to take any debt out of the operation of the Statute of
Limitations.

Construction
of act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said register
shall be allowed for the entry of such claims, the usual
fee for docket entries, to be paid by the claimant.

Fee allowed