2930 ARTICLE 93.

1924, ch. 456.

173. The Orphans' Court may order any guardian to sell any fee-simple
real estate or annual ground rents of his ward, or any interest of his ward
therein, provided that the total amount of such real estate or' rents; or
interest therein, owned by the infant, shall not be appraised at more than
$5,000; and further provided, that the Court shall be satisfied that such
sale would be for the benefit of the minor or advantageous to his estate.
But such sale shall not be valid or effectual unless ratified and confirmed by
the Orphans' Court after notice by publication given in the same manner
as practiced in cases of sales of lands under decrees in equity.

An. Code, sec. 168. 1904, sec. 167. 1888, sec. 168. 1816, ch. 203, sec. 2.

174. The orphans' court may order any money belonging to a ward
to be invested in like manner and subject to the same restrictions as pre-
scribed in section 172.

This section referred to in deciding that a guardian had no power to execute a
certain mortgage and as showing with what strictness a guardian must act. Tyson v.
Latrobe, 42 Md. 333.

An. Code, sec. 169. 1904, sec. 168. 1888, sec. 169. 1856, ch. 326, sec. 1.

175. The orphans' court may order the location, sale, transfer or assign-
ment of any bounty land warrant issued by the government of the United
States or descended to any infant heir or heirs in this State, of deceased
soldiers, under the age of twenty-one years, to be made by the guardians
of such minor heirs, pursuant to the laws and regulations of the United
States, as fully and effectually as can be done by adult holders of bounty
land warrant; which sale, transfer or assignment shall vest in the purchasers
of such bounty land warrants all right, title, claim and interest of the said
infant owners thereof, either at law or in equity, in and to the same; and
the money arising from such sale shall be accounted for by said guardians
in the orphans' court ordering such sale or transfer.

An. Code, sec. 170. 1904, sec. 169. 1888, sec. 170. 1856, ch. 326, sec. 2.

176. For the purpose of effecting the location, sale, transfer or assign-
ment 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.

An. Code, sec. 171. 1904, sec. 170. 1900, ch. 570, sec. 170A.

177. 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