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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1323
Condition.

it, and his place shall be supplied, and the said commissioners each
shall be entitled to four dollars per diem as a compensation.
11. And be it enacted, That this act shall be of no force or effect
until approved of by the Mayor and city council of Baltimore.

Passed Feb.

11, 1824.

CHAPTER 131.
An additional supplement to An act, entitled, An act for amending, and reduc-
ing into system, the laws and regulations concerning last wills and testaments,
the duties of executors, administrators and guardians, and the rights of or-
phan's and other representatives of deceased persons.

Preamble.

Whereas, great frauds have been practised, by the employment of
agents in the administration of the estates of deceased persons, who
are not compelled by law to make any return of their proceedings to
the several orphans' courts in this state, and cannot be examined by
said courts, on oath, as to their proceedings when employed by exe-
cutors and administrators in the administration of the estates of de-
ceased persons, Therefore,

Agents may
be examined
on oath.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, the orphan's court of this state,
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered wherever they are
satisfied that an agent has been employed in the administration of the
estate of a deceased person by an executor or administrator or exe-
cutrix or administratrix, to examine such agent on oath of all pro-
ceedings which may have taken place relative to the administration
of the estate of any deceased person in which such agent may have
been employed, in like manner, as they are now authorized by the act
to which this is a supplement to examine executors or administra-
tors.

Claimants
neglecting.

2. And be it enacted, That in all cases where a claim or claims, a-
gainst a deceased persons estate, shall be known to the executor or
administrator of such estate, and such claiment or claiments shall
delay, neglect or refuse to bring in his, her or their claim or claims,
legally authenticated, after notice given as directed in the thirteenth
section of the eighth chapter of the act to which this is an additional
supplement and within the time limited in such notice, such claiment
or claiments shall be in the same situation to all intents and purposes
with regard to his, her, or their claims, as those whose claims are un-
known to the executor or administrator, any thing contained in the act
to which this is an additional supplement to the contrary notwith-
standing.

Passed Feb.
9, 1824.

Road closed.

CHAPTER 132.

An act authorising James Orme of Montgomery county, to close an old road
leading from Richard Langford's, to intersect the public road near Dr. John
Bowie's Farm.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That James
Orme of Montgomery county, is authorised to close the old Bla-
densburgh Road, leading from the late residence of Richard Lang-
ford, through the farm of the said James Orme, to intersect the pub-
lic road near Doctor John Bowie's farm.

Passed Feb.
9,1824.

Proviso re-
pealed.

CHAPTER 133.
An additional supplement to an act, entitled, an act to incorporate a company to
make a turnpike road from the market space in Hager's-Town, to the West
Bank of Conococheague.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the pro-
viso contained in the seventh section of the act, entitled, an act to in-