JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR,

lecting and enforcing the payment of all taxes subject to such
regulations as the President and Commissioners of said town
may make in relation thereto.

SEC 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 570.
AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 93 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Testa-
mentary Law," sub-title "Guardian and Ward," to come
in after Section one hundred and seventy, and to be known
as Section 170A.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional section be added to Article 93 of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Testamentary Law,"
sub-title "Guardian and Ward," to come in after Section one
hundred and seventy, and to be known as Section 170 A, and
to read as follows:

Guardian and
ward.

Sec. 170A. Whenever ground rents reserved in leases created
heretofore, or hereafter become redeemable, and the title to
the fee and reversion in the land out of which said rents issue
is held by and vested in infants, the Orphans' Court may,
upon petition of guardians of such infants, order the transfer
and conveyance of the fee and reversion in such land to the
owner of the leasehold interest therein, upon payment of the
amount of money at and for which the said ground rents may
be redeemable; and deeds made, executed and delivered to
guardians for and on behalf of such infants, in pursuance of
an order of the Orphans' Court as aforesaid, shall vest in the
owner of the leasehold estate, his heirs and assigns, all right,
title, interest and estate of the said infant owners of the fee
and reversion, either at law or in equity, in and to the same;
and the money arising from such redemption of ground rents
shall be accounted for by said guardians in the Orphans'

Ground rents.
When redeem-
able, etc.
orphans'
Court may
order transfer,
etc.

Court ordering such transfer and conveyance. Every petition,
by guardians as aforesaid, shall set forth the location and a
description of the land, the liber and folio of the land records
wherein the same is recorded; the date of the lease whereby
the said rent was created; the amount of the annual ground
rent; the amount at and for which the ground rent is redeem-
able, and the petition shall also state that notice as required

Location and
description of
the land, etc-