698                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 405

trator of such a deceased wife's estate to pay said funeral expenses
out of her estate and to thereafter collect from the deceased wife's
surviving husband a sum sufficient to reimburse said decedent's
estate for the amount so paid out of it to cover said funeral expenses.
The provisions of this subtitle are not intended to relieve a surviving
husband of his liability for the payment of his deceased wife's
funeral expenses, but is intended to make a deceased wife's estate,
providing it be solvent, a primary source from which her funeral
expenses may be paid.

109.

An administrator shall discharge all just claims known to him
or pay each claimant his just proportion of the money then in his
hands (retaining as herein directed) [,] within [thirteen] fifteen
months from the date of his letters, or within such further time, not
exceeding [four] six months longer, as shall be allowed by the
orphans' court, on his making oath that he hath reason to apprehend
that the personal estate and assets which are or shall be in his
hands will be insufficient to discharge the just debts of and claims
against the deceased; it shall likewise be his duty, once in every
term of six months, after the first distribution, to make a distribution
of the money which hath since come [to] into his hands, until he shall
have fully administered, and, on failure, his administration bond
may be put in suit.

128.

The register of wills shall enter in a suitable book, to be provided
by him for that purpose, all claims against a decedent, in regular
order, as they are passed by the orphans' court or register of wills,
giving the date of the passage, the name of the creditor, the character
of such claim, whether open account, note, bond, bill obligatory,
judgment or other evidence of debt, and the amount thereof; if an
open account, the interest due thereon up to the date of the passage
shall be stated separately; if a note, bond, bill obligatory, judgment
or other evidence of debt, the date thereof, and the date from which
interest begins to run shall also be stated, and other particulars of
such claims; and the entry of a claim upon such book shall be taken
as notice to the administrator of its existence [; and the register of
wills shall be entitled to receive, for making such entry of each
claim, the sum of ten cents, to be paid by the claimant].

174.

When a guardian or guardians shall be appointed to such infant,
or the said infant shall arrive at age, [or if a female be married—
whichever shall first happen—] the administrator shall render to
the orphans' court an account on oath of the manner in which the
duties imposed by §§ 171 and 172 of this article have been dis-
charged, in the same manner and upon the same principles as guard-
ians are hereafter required to settle their accounts, and subject to
the like control and authority of the court in all respects; and the said
account shall be separate and distinct from the administration of
the personal estate of the deceased; and the orphans' court shall
thereupon pass an order directing such administrator to pay over
to the guardian or guardians, or to the person entitled, as the case