656 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.
174. When there are two or more guardians, and the sale or
removal has been made without the consent of all, the revocation
shall only extend to the person or persons so offending, and the
remaining guardian or guardians shall have full power to dis-
charge all the duties connected with his or their office.
175. Nothing herein shall apply where a guardian has been
appointed by will, with power to sell property without making a
return of such sale to the Orphans' Court.
176. In the first account to be rendered by a guardian, he shall
state the property by him received from an executor, adminis-
trator, or otherwise belonging to his ward, and every increase,
and the profits thence arising, if any.
177. Every account of a guardian shall state his expenditures
in maintaining and educating his ward, not exceeding the income
of his estate, unless allowed by the court; and for no balance of
money in his hands shall he be charged interest, unless he shall
consent to take the same on interest, but the court may direct
him to invest the same, and for the trouble and care of such
guardian the court may allow any commission not exceeding ten
per cent, on the annual income of the estate.
178. Any allowance which may be made by any Orphans'
Court to a guardian for the clothing, support, maintenance,
education, or for other expenses incurred by the guardian for
his ward or his estate, and which shall have accrued subsequent
to the death of the father of such ward, and before the guardian
may have been appointed or given bond, shall have the same
effect and operation in law, to all intents and purposes, as if such
expense of the ward or his estate had accrued and become due
subsequent to the time of the appointment of such guardian or
his giving bond.
179. In all cases in which the mother is left the natural
guardian of her infant children, the Orphans' Court are hereby
authorized and required to allow the mother, as natural guardian,
in the settlement of her accounts, all such charges, expenses, and
commissions as are or may be authorized by law, in the case of
other guardians.
180. On a guardian's failing to account, as herein directed, his
bond shall be liable to be put in suit, and he shall also be liable
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