GIBSON'S CASE.—1 BLAND. 131

tices, *&c.; The King v. Stubbs, 2 T. R. 395; Land H. Ass.
104, note; but from the general language of our Constitution,
for there is no express provision upon the subject, it appears,
that women are virtually excluded from all the various offices of
our government,—legislative, judicial, and executive. From which
it would seem to follow, that females could not constitutionally be
employed even as the mere ministerial agents of any one of the

to this answer the guardian for himself says. "I. Edward Dorsey. son of
Caleb, guardian for Edward Dorsey, son of Samuel, the defendant in this
case, do hereby consent, that the lands mentioned in the aforesaid answer or
such part thereof should be sold under the decree of the Court of Chancery,
as may be necessary and sufficient to pay the debts due. which is contained
in the answer aforesaid.'' (1773, ch. 7.6. 2.) Upon all which the case was
submitted.

ROGERS, C.. 4th November, 1784.—Decreed, with the assent of the said
Edward Dorsey. son of Caleb, as guardian of the said Edward Dorsey, son of
Samuel, that he the said Edward Dorsey, son of Samuel, by his guardian
aforesaid, do set up and expose to sale at public vendue, the several parcels
of land in the proceedings mentioned, or such part thereof as may be suffi-
cient to satisfy the complainants, &c.. after giving six weeks' notice thereof
in the Annapolis and Baltimore newspapers, of the time and place of such
sale, and the same when sold, &c., the said Edward Dorsey, son of Samuel,
do and shall effectually convey and assure to the purchaser or purchasers
thereof, their heirs and assigns, in fee, upon payment of the purchase money
to the said Edward Dorsey, son of Caleb, as guardian aforesaid: that the
guardian aforesaid shall. &c. satisfy the complainants, &c.; that the guar-
dian aforesaid do and shall, as soon as the several parcels of land, &c. are
sold, make and lodge in this Court, under his hand and with his affidavit of
the truth thereof thereto annexed, a just and accurate certificate or memo-
randum of the said sales, to whom made, and at what price; and also as
soon as may be, after the receipt of the purchase money thereof, render to
this Court a full, just and true account, with his affidavit annexed, of his
disbursements thereof, to whom made, and at what time; that the guardian
aforesaid do and shall, before any sale, &c. execute and file in this Court his
bond to the State of Maryland, with good and sufficient surety, faithfully to
fulfil and perform the trust in him reposed by the said decree, &o. and that
the said guardian do and shall, before the payment of the said sum of money
to the complainants, obtain from them a bond to the State of Maryland with
good surety, &c. to indemnify, save harmless, and exonerate the said Ed-
ward Dorsey, son of Samuel, his heirs, &c. from all charges, &c. on account
of the judgments aforesaid obtained by the said Alexander Lawson, and
from all claims for which he may be made chargeable by the said codicil to
the last will of his grandfather, or by any other means whatsoever.

It appears that the trustee gave bond, and returned an account of his dis-
bursements of the proceeds of sale, with which the record closes.—Chan.
Pro. No. 2, page 136.

BOND v. BOND.—On a bill filed on the 1st of October, 1783, a decree was
passed 3d January, 1786, for a sale of real estate, which sale was directed to
he made by a trustee in a manner precisely similar to that directed by the
decree in the foregoing case.—Chan. Pro. No. 2, page 613.