LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1807.

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CHAPTER 136.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for
amending and reducing into system, the laws and regulations concern-
ing last Wills and Testaments, the duties of Executors, Administrators
and Guardians, and the rights of Orphans, and other representatives of
deceased persons.
See notes to the original act, ante page 370.

* 1798, ch,
101.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That after the first day of October next the crop growing upon
land devised by any deceased person, and by him or her begun,
shall be deemed and considered as assets in the hands of an
executor or administrator, in the same manner that the crop
growing upon land not devised is.

Crop grow-
ing upon
land de-
vised, to be
considered
as assets,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any security of a guardian,
appointed by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement,
shall conceive him or herself in danger of suffering from the
suretyship, he may apply to the orphans court by which such
guardian was appointed, and the said court may call on such
guardian to give counter security, and if the said guardian
shall not, within a fixed reasonable time, give such counter
security, the said court may revoke the appointment of such
guardian, and appoint a new guardian; and in case the guar-
dian whose appointment is revoked as aforesaid, shall refuse or
neglect, in a reasonable time after demand, to deliver over to
such new guardian the property of the ward, the said court may
compel the same by attachment, and may direct the bond of
such displaced guardian to be put in suit.
See 1831, ch. 315.

In certain
cases guar-
dian may
be called
on to give
counter
security,
&c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful
for the several orphans courts in this state to call upon any exe-
cutor or administrator, to whom letters testamentary or of admi-
nistration have been by them respectively granted, to give new
security, to be approved of by such court, and if such executor
or administrator shall refuse or neglect to give such new secu-
rity within a fixed reasonable time, the said court may revoke
such letters testamentary or of administration, and appoint a
new administrator or administrators ; and in case such executor
or administrator shall refuse or neglect, in a reasonable time
after demand, to deliver over to such new administrator or
administrators the property of the deceased remaining in his
hands unadministered, the said court may compel the same by
attachment, and may direct the administration bond of such
executor or administrator to be put in suit.
See 1831, ch. 315.

Court may
call on
executor or
administra-
tor to give
new securi-
ty, &o.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said several orphans
courts be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to
appoint a guardian or guardians to an infant, who may acquire
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Court
authorized
to appoint
guardians