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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1834.

Guardian

10 case of

personal
property.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in case any infant in this
state shall be entitled to personal property by purchase, or by
gift, other than by last will and testament recorded in this state,
and there be no guardian appointed to such infant within this
state, the orphans court of the county in which such infant shall
reside, shall have the right to appoint a guardian to such infant.

Guardian-
ship applies
to all
property.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That when a guardian shall be
appointed by an orphans court in this state, or by last will and
testament, agreeably to law, such guardianship shall extend to
all the property of the infant within this state, or which may be
obtained by such guardian out of the state, in virtue of such
appointment or guardianship, in order that the affairs of orphans
and minors may be as little complicated as possible, and that
they may more easily and readily obtain justice.

CHAPTER 293.
A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Insolvent
Debtors in the City and County of Baltimore.
See notes to the original act, 1816, ch. 221, ante page 652.
Other acts are, 1834, ch. 309, 316, 336; 1835, ch. 235, 384; 1836, ch.
7C, 97, 133, 293.

In cases of
application
for benefit.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases of applications hereafter to be made for the
benefit of insolvent debtors under the act to which this is a

All convey-
ances, &c*

supplement, or any supplement thereto, all conveyances, as-
signments, sales, deliveries, payments, conversions, or dispo-
sitions of property, or estate, real, personal, or mixed, debts,
lights, or claims, or confessions of judgment that shall be
made, or caused, or allowed to be made, whether upon re-
quest or otherwise, by any applicant to or in favour, or with
a view to the advantage or security of, and with intent to

With view
to prefer-
ence, &c.

prefer any creditor or creditors, security or securities, of such
applicant, when such applicant shall have had no reasonable
expectation of being exempted from liability or execution, for or
on account of his debts, without applying for the benefit of the

Shall be
deemed
within
meaning of
6th sec.
with view to
insolvency.

insolvent laws as aforesaid, shall be deemed within the mean-
ing and effect of the sixth section of the act to which this is a
supplement, to have been made with a view, or under an ex-
pectation on part of the applicant, of being, or becoming an in-
solvent debtor, and with an intent thereby to give an undue and

Proviso.

improper preference; Provided however, that the provisions of
this section, shall not apply as against any person or persons
claiming, by virtue of any assignment, or conveyance for valu-
able consideration, from or under, the creditor or creditors,
security or securities, their heirs, executors, or administrators,
nor to any case where the said creditor or security, shall appear