INFANTS

    Guardians to be appointed to infants acquiring property
by gift or purchase, as if by descent, devise, or
in a course of distribution,
    Carnal knowledge of infants under the age of ten
years, punishment for.  See Crimes, &c.
    Where an infant is possessed of lands, &c. the same
or any part may be sold by order of the chancellor or
the county courts, on petition of the guardian or prochein
ami.
    Directions for the infant to be summoned and to appear
by guardian to be appointed by the chancellor or
the county courts, who were empowered to determine,
on hearing and examination of all circumstances, whether
such sale would be for the interest and advantage
of the infant,
—Power given to appoint a trustee,

—Directions as to the confirmation of the sale, the
trustees bond, &c.

—Allowance to the trustee,
    The proceeds to be paid to the guardian of the infant,
to be vested in such public stock, or other permanent
fund, as will at least net 6 per cent. and as the
orphans court appointing the guardian shall direct,
—The surplus interest, after maintenance and education, 
to be vested in the same manner,
—The money to be vested in the name of the infant,
transferrable only by an order of the orphans court,
    No part of the principal arising from a sale under
this law to be applied towards maintenance or education,
unless the chancellor or county courts shall consider
it necessary,
    In case of the infant's death, under age, without lawful
issue, the proceeds of the sale to be considered as
real estate, and descend as such,
    Provision made as to rights of dower,
    The same powers to be exercised where the infant
is seized of a reversion dependent on an estate for life,
on the assent of the tenant for life, the interest being
payable to the said tenant,
    Natural guardians, or those appointed by will, of
the estate or property of minors, to give bond with security
to be approved by the orphans court,
—To settle their accounts, &c. as prescribed for
other guardians,
—The orphans courts may empower them to sell
any leasehold estate of their wards,
—The proceeds, or any surplus money, to be invested
in bank stock, &c. in the name of the minor by
order of the court,
—No sale of the stock to be made without the
concurrence of the orphans court,
    On petition of a guardian, &c. for sale of the real
estate of an infant, a commission to be issued for valuing
the same, &c.  See Chancery.
    The provisions of the act of 1816, ch. 154, for sale of
infant's estates, to be extended to equitable titles,
    On the consent of the actual guardian to minors, &c.
the real estate may be sold in order to save the personal,
    The provisions of the 5th section of the act of 1797,
ch. 114, concerning partition, extended to cases where
all the persons reside out of the state,
    A commission may issue to three persons in the state
where an infant resides to appoint a guardian to answer,
&c.

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