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any cause whatever, but shall not have been revoked or declared
void, any payment or delivery to such guardian of such legacy,
distributive share, or personal property by such administrator,
shall have the same force, validity and effect as respects such
administrator as if said guardian's appointment were regularly
made, and not for any cause liable to be revoked or declared
void.
191. Every such guardian so receiving money or other pro-
perty belonging to his ward, shall be liable to account for the
same, to be recovered by suit on his guardian bond or other-
wise, as provided by law in case of guardians duly and regu-
larly appointed.
192. On a ward's arrival at age, or on the marriage of a female
ward, the guardian shall exhibit a final account to the Orphans'
Court, and shall deliver up agreeably to the court's order to the
said ward, or to the husband, as the case may require, all the pro-
perty of such ward in his hands, including bonds and other
securities, and on failure, his bond may be put in suit, and he
shall be liable to attachment and fine not exceeding three hun-
dred dollars; and a female shall be of age at eighteen, for the
purposes of this section.
193. It shall not be lawful for any person whatsoever, not
being guardian, or not having license from a guardian, to enter
into, possess or occupy any lands or tenements belonging to any
orphan or orphans, without first applying to the Orphans' Court
where the land lies, and obtaining leave from them for such
rents as they shall think just and reasonable, to be paid to
such orphan or orphans, on pain of being trespassers, and paying
treble damages and full costs to such orphan or orphans, to
be recovered by the guardian during the orphan's minority,
or by the orphan when at full age.
194. Whenever the Orphans' Court shall be in any manner in-
formed of any waste being done by any guardian upon any
orphan's estate, the said court shall issue their warrant to cause
such guardian to appear before them, and if upon the said
guardian's appearance before them, and being heard in his
defence, or on his refusal to appear, being summoned, such informa-
tion shall appear to be true, the said court shall order the sheriff,
with all possible speed, to summon a jury upon the place where
the waste shall be committed, to inquire upon their oath into the
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