JONES v. STOCKETT. 411

sum, and consequently the interest thereon. Whereupon, the WE
prayed that the defendants might be required to give a full state-
ment of the condition of the said $7,000; and what remained
due of the interest thereon; that they be directed to pay the
balance thereof, and especially, that they be required to put out
at interest the said sum of $7,000, on good security, so that the
interest thereof might be paid punctually, and at short and conve-
nient periods, to the plaintiffs.

On the 26th of March, 1824, the defendant Stockett put in his
answer, in which the will and the marriage of the plaintiffs, as set
forth in the bill, were admitted. He exhibited with his answer an
extract from the inventory returned by the executors; and in refer-
ence thereto, described the then situation of the testator's estate,
which, he said, the executors were collecting and settling with as
little delay as practicable; that sundry payments had been made to
the plaintiffs, whereby it appeared that they had received about two
hundred and eighty dollars over and above what they were strictly
entitled to; and, in conclusion, this defendant says, that he sub-
mits that a decree may pass directing the executors to report, from
time to time, on the state of the property; and to bring in the
money arising from the debts as it may be received; and that the
same be invested as the court may direct.

After which the defendant Stockett, by his petition, stated, that
he had received a very large sum of money applicable to the trusts
of the will; and thereupon prayed to be authorized and directed to
invest the same in some safe and productive fund, &c.

31st August, 1825.—BLAND, Chancellor.—Ordered, that Richard
G. Stockett, the petitioner, be, and he is hereby permitted and direct-
ed, to deposite any sum of money now in his hands, or which may
hereafter come into his hands, as a part of the said trust fund, with
the register, to be by him deposited in the Farmers Bank of Mary-
land to the credit of the case, subject to further order.

The plaintiffs Jones and wife, by their petition, stating that the
defendant Stockett had, under this order, paid into court the sum of
$1,652 28; and that the executors were perfectly willing that the
money already deposited, and which might thereafter be deposited
on account of the said trust fund, should be paid over to the plain-
tiff Samuel, upon his giving bond with approved surety. Where-
upon they prayed that the same, together with all the residue of