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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1833.

CHAPTER 147-

AN ACT relating to the State Library.
SEC. 1, 2. Directory as to fitting up the library hall.

Act of 1832,
ch. 279,
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the act of December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-two, chapter two hundred and
seventy-nine, entitled, a supplement to the act, entitled, an act
establishing a library for the use of the legislature, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 150.
AN ACT, entitled, an Act to extend the Powers of the Chancery Court,
and the County Courts as Courts of Equity.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, the act of assembly, of seventeen hundred and
eighty-five, chapter seventy-two, section six, makes it the duty
of the chancellor or county court, sitting as a court of equity,
to be satisfied of the justice of a claim of any creditor or credi-
tors, against any idiot, lunatic, or person non compos mentis,
and also, that it will be advantageous and beneficial to the es-
tate of such idiot, lunatic, or person non compos mentis, that a
sale of his or her personal or real property or estate, should be
made ; for remedy thereof,

Discretion
to order
sale.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall not be necessary in cases of applications of any
such creditor or creditors, now or hereafter depending before
the chancellor, or county court sitting as a court of equity, that
such chancellor, or county court sitting as a court of equity,
shall be satisfied that a sale of the personal or real property or
estate of such idiot, lunatic, or person non compos mentis, for
discharging and paying the claim or claims of such creditor or
creditors of such idiot, lunatic or person non compos mentis,
will be advantageous to such idiot, lunatic, or person non com-
pos mentis, but that a sale may be made, without such a requi-

Proviso.

sition ; Provided always , that this act shall not be construed to
repeal the act of seventeen hundred and eighty-five, chapter
seventy-two, in any other particular.

Power to
order lease,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That on application by the trus-
tees of any idiot, lunatic, or person non compos mentis, to the
court of chancery, or to Baltimore county court as a court of
equity, it shall and may be lawful for the court on being satis-
fied by return of commissioners appointed to inquire or other-
wise that the same will be advantageous for the interests of such
idiot, lunatic, or person non compos mentis, to order and decree
in manner and under the regulations provided by the act of
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter
three hundred and eleven, in case of infants, the leasing for any
term of years, renewable forever or otherwise, and on such con-