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court in like manner as guardians are required by law to account,
and subject to the like control and authority of the court, in all
respects whatever.
152. No administrator shall be bound in any manner to dis-
charge and fulfil the duties of guardian after the close of his ad-
ministration, or after the end of three years from the granting
such administration, nor after a guardian shall be appointed by
the Orphans' Court.
153. When a guardian or guardians shall be appointed to such
infant, or the said infant shall arrive at age, or if a female be
married—whichever shall first happen—the administrator shall
render to the Orphans' Court an account on oath of the manner
in which the duties imposed by the two preceding sections have
been discharged, in the same manner and upon the same prin-
ciples as guardians are hereinafter required to settle their
accounts, and subject to the like control and authority of the
court in all respects; and the said account shall be separate and
distinct from the administration of the personal estate of the
deceased; and the Orphans' Court shall thereupon pass an order
directing such administrator to pay over to the guardian or guard-
ians, or to the person entitled as the case may be, any money
remaining in his hands belonging to such infant, which shall have
arisen from the profit of the real estate belonging to such infant,
and also to deliver over to such guardian or guardians, or person
entitled, the real estate of such infant; and upon neglect or
refusal of the administrator to obey such order, or to return an
account as herein directed, his administration bond shall be liable
to be sued by such guardian or guardians, or person entitled,
and the Orphans' Court may moreover proceed against him by
attachment and sequestration.
154. Every natural guardian, or guardian appointed by last
will and testament of the estate or property of infants, shall give
bond with securities to be approved by the Orphans' Court, as
directed in the next succeeding section.
155. Every guardian appointed by the court, and every guard-
ian by will, or natural guardian, before he proceeds to act as
such, shall enter into bond to the State of Maryland in such
penalty and with such sureties as the court shall approve, and to
be recorded and be subject to be put in suit, and to be in all
respects on a footing with an administration bond, with the
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