ART. 93] GUARDIAN AND WARD. 2089

1904, art. 93, sec. 169. 1888, art. 93, sec. 170. 1860. art. 93, sec. 170.
1856, ch. 326, sec. 2.

170. For the purpose of effecting the location, sale, transfer or
assignment of bounty land warrants under the preceding section held
by female infants between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years,
the orphans' courts may in such cases appoint guardians to such female
infants.

Ibid. sec. 170. 1900, ch. 570, sec. 170 A.

171. Whenever ground rents reserved in leases created heretofore,
or hereafter become redeemable, and the title to the fee and reversion
in the land out of which said rents issue is held by and vested in
infants, the orphans' court may, upon petition of guardians of such
infants, order the transfer and conveyance of the fee and reversion in
such land to the owner of the leasehold interest therein, upon payment
of the amount of money at and for which the said ground rents may
be redeemable; and deeds made, executed and delivered to guardians
for and on behalf of such infants, in pursuance of an order of the
orphans' court as aforesaid, shall vest in the owner of the leasehold
estate, his heirs and assigns, all right, title, interest and estate of the
said infant owners of the fee and reversion, either at law or in equity,
in and to the same; and the money arising from such redemption of.
ground rents shall be accounted for by said guardians in the orphans'
court ordering such transfer and conveyance. Every petition by guar-
dians as aforesaid shall set forth the location and a description of the
land, the liber and folio of the land records wherein the same is
recorded, the date of the lease whereby the said rent was created, the
amount of the annual ground rent, the amount at and for which the
ground rent is redeemable, and the petition shall also state that notice
as required by law, or as required by the lease, as the case may be, has
been given by the owner of the leasehold estate, and such other facts as
may be necessary to properly present the matter to the court, and all
such petitions shall be sworn to by the guardian.

As to when ground-rents are redeemable, see art. 21, sections 92 and 93,

and art. 53, sec. 24.

As to the redemption of ground-rents vested in a trustee without a power

of sale, see art. 16, sec. 250.

Ibid. sec. 171. 1888, art. 93, sec. 171. 1860, art. 93, sec. 171. 1816, ch.

154. 1872, ch. 403. 1882, ch. 384. 1886, ch. 231.

1S90, ch. 211. 1892, ch. 100.

172. They shall order the guardian who has received from any
trustee of a court of equity any proceeds of real estate of his ward
sold by such trustee, or the proceeds of the sale of leasehold estate of
his ward, sold by order of the orphans' court, or moneys belonging to
his ward, to invest the same in mortgages on unincumbered real estate,
worth at least double the amount loaned, or such public stock, permanent
funds, or other good securities to be selected by said guardian, as will
yield the highest rate of interest that can reasonably be had, or they
may when it is clearly for the benefit of the ward order the same to