PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 683

118. In all applications by a guardian, committee or trustee
of the property of a person non compos mentis to sell any of the
real, leasehold or personal property of such person non compos
mentis, or to mortgage any of the real or leasehold property of
such person non compos mentis or to demise any of the real or
leasehold property of such person non compos mentis, or to
accept the surrender of lease thereof, the Court shall, before
passing an order, or decree, have proof taken as in other Chan-
cery cases as to the value, quantity and condition of the prop-
erty and after considering all the circumstances if the Court
shall deem it to the interest and advantage of such person non
compos mentis it may order or decree a sale, mortgage, lease or
surrender of a lease of the whole or any part of said property
on such terms and conditions as the Court may prescribe.

119. No sale, mortgage, lease or surrender of a lease of the
property, real or personal of a person non compos mentis shall
be valid unless the same shall be reported to and confirmed by
the Court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 479.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 41 of
Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Garrett County," sub-title "County Commissioners,"
and to add a new section thereto to be known as section 4lA.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 41 of Article 12 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Garrett County," sub-title "County
Commissioners," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, and a new section added, to be
known as section 4lA, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 41. Whenever it shall become necessary to sell any
land in Garrett county, because of the non-payment of the State
and county taxes due thereon, it shall and may be lawful for
the county commissioners to purchase said lands, or such part
thereof as may be necessary, to the amount of said taxes, and if
the taxpayer, in whose name said land was assessed and sold,
shall not within two years from the day of said sale pay and dis-
charge said taxes, interest and costs, the title to said land shall