Samuel sprigg, esquire, governor.

1819.

6. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the law to which this
is a supplement, inconsistent with the provisions herein contained,
be and the same are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 185.
Repeal

CHAP. CLXXXVI.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the relief of the Securities of Wil-
liam S. Handy, late Collector and Sheriff of Somerset County.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
securities of the said William S. Handy in his sheriffs and collec-
tor's bonds, or a majority of them, may if they shall think it most
expedient and effectual in order to procure a settlement with the
deputies of the said William S. Handy, proceed against any person or
persons who may at any time have acted as deputy or deputies to
the said William S. Handy, in Somerset county court, by bill in
equity, and such process shall be as good and effectual in every re-
spect for the. benefit of said securities, as if the same were at the
instance and in the name of the said William S. Handy, and such
deputy or deputies, as the case may be, shall answer the bill and
interrogatories at the first term, and on failure to answer be subject
to all the rules and process and penalties for contempt usually prac-
tised in courts of equity at the final term, and the said court shall
have full power and authority to decree therein according to the
equity and law of the matter, provided a copy of the bill and of
this act be delivered to such deputy or deputies, or their attorney,
or left at his or their dwelling or last place of abode, twenty days
prior to the setting of the court where the same is to be tried, any
thing contained in the act to which this is a supplement to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

Passed Feb 14 1820

Securities may
proceed against
deputies, &c

CHAP. CLXXXVII.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the Charitable Marine
Society of Baltimore.
1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That when
any seaman or mariner, sailing from or residing in the port of Balti-
more, shall die intestate and without heirs, as far as appears, in
the United States, letters of administration upon the estate of such
seaman or mariner, shall be granted in preference to some officer of
the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore; Provided, that such
officer shall make application for the same within ten days after no-
tice of the. death of such seaman or mariner shall be left at the of-
fice of the register of wills for Baltimore county, and publication
made then of at least five days in some newspaper printed in the
city of Baltimore.
2. And be it enacted, That the commission allowed by the orphans
court upon the administration of such estates as aforesaid, shall go
into the funds of the said society, and the balance or net proceeds
of all such estates, shall be invested in some safe stock, there to re-
main as a part of the capital stock of the said society, who shall be
bound to pay over the same, without interest or dividend, to the
heir or heirs of such respective seaman or mariner, proved to be
such according to law. and the interest or dividends accruing upon
such investments, shall and may be disposed of and distributed to
and in favour of those objects of charity, whom it is the purpose of
the society aforesaid to relieve.

Passed Feb 14 1820

Officers of society
to have the prefe-
rence in adminis-
tering on estates
of deceased mari-
ners, &c

Proviso

Commissioners allow-
ed to go into the
funds of society