Acts. 203

Infants seized or possessed of any Land Tenements or Heredita-
ments charged with or subject to the Payment of Money or Tobacco
unless it shall appear that the Guardian or Guardians of such Infant or
Infants hath or have consented thereunto and also that such Infant or
Infants will not sustain any Detriment Disadvantage or Inconvenience
from such Order or Direction and also that upon every Order or
Direction for Conveyance to be made by an Infant or Infants for
the Specifick Performance and Execution of any such Agreement
as aforesaid Liberty shall be reserved for the said Infant or Infants
to Shew Cause within six Months after he she or they shall have
attained the full Age of twenty one Years if such Infants or Infants
shall attain such full Age and also for the Heirs of such Infant or
Infants if such Infant or Infants shall not so long live in six Months
after the Decease of such Infant or Infants if the said Heirs shall
then be of full Age and if such Heirs shall not then be of full Age
in six Months after such Heirs shall have attained his her or their
full Age why such Conveyance ought not to have been ordered or
directed and on sufficient Cause being shewn as aforesaid the Infant
or Infants aforesaid or his or their Heirs shall be entitled to and
have a Re-Conveyance by Order or Decree of the said Courts of
the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments by whomsoever claimed
or possessed by from or under the Conveyance made by such Infant
or Infants aforesaid and also a full Account of the Rents and Profits
thereof and from the Person who shall have received the same —

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any
suit which shall be commenced in the Court of Chancery any De-
fendant or Defendants against whom any Subpoena or other Process
shall issue shall not cause his her or their Appearance to be entered
upon such Process within such Time and in such Manner as accord-
ing to the Rules of the Court the same ought to have been entered in
Case such Process had been duly served and an Affidavit or Affidavits
shall be made to the Satisfaction of the Courts that such Defendant
or Defendants is or are out of this Province or that upon inquiry at
his her or their usual Place of Abode He She or They could not be
found so as to be served with such Process and that there is just
Ground to believe that such Defendant or Defendants is or are gone
out of this Province or otherwise abscond to avoid being served with
the Process aforesaid then and in such Case the said Court may
make an Order directing and appointing such Defendant or De-
fendants to appear at a Certain Day therein to be named and a
Copy of such Order shall forthwith be inserted in the Maryland
Gazette and continued therein for six successive Weeks and a Copy
of such Order shall be left as soon as conveniently may be at the
Usual Place of Abode of such Defendant or Defendants before his
her or their leaving this Province or absconding as aforesaid and
also a Copy of it shall be forthwith set up at the Door of the Court

Defendants
not causing
their Ap-
pearance to
be entered,
or being
gone out of
the Prov-
ince, &c.
the Court of
Chancery to
issue Proc-
ess to com-
pel the Per-
formance of
their De-
cree, &c.
p. 244