ART. 93.] TESTAMENTARY LATT. 653

ful, discreet persons, not related to either party, and appointed
by the Orphans' Court, which two persons, before they proceed
to act, shall swear before some judge or justice that they will
appraise the same without favor or prejudice, and to the best
of their skill and judgment; and it shall be the duty of the
appraisers to examine the estate and estimate the annual value
thereof, including any slaves, working beasts and stock and
utensils thereon belonging to the ward and proper to be leased
with the land; they shall likewise set down in writing what
dwelling houses, out houses, orchards, gardens, meadows, en-
closures and other improvements are on the land, and the con-
dition thereof, and what proportion of the said land is in their
estimation in woods; and they shall make a certificate, under
their hands and seals, of the whole they have done, to which
shall be annexed a certificate of their appointment and of their
having taken the oath aforesaid, and the same shall be returned
by the guardian to the Orphans' Court within three months as
aforesaid; and the same shall be evidence against him, in case of
any suit for misconduct brought against him.

160. No guardian shall commit waste on the land, but the
court may, on his application, allow him to cut down and sell
wood, and account for the same, in case it shall deem the same
advantageous or necessary for the ward's education and main-
tenance.

161. And each guardian having real estate under his care shall
either cultivate the same, with the slaves, stock and utensils
belonging to his ward, or to be purchased with his money, with
the approbation of the court, or he shall lease the same from,
year to year, or for any term not exceeding three years, and
within the non-age of his ward; or he may, with the court's
approbation, undertake the estate on his own account, and bo
answerable for the annual value to be every third year ascer-
tained under the direction of the court.

162. The rents of all real estate of an infant dying before
such rents become due shall for the year in which such infant
dies be paid to his guardian, and shall be accounted for by the
guardian in the settlement of his accounts with the Orphans'
Court, and the balance not appropriated for the education and
support of such infant for taxes, repairs, improvements, com-
missions and expenses shall be paid by such guardian to the