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SETTLEMENT OF DECEDENTS' ESTATES. [ART. 50.

Id s 232
1798, c 101,
sub-c 15, s 12
May remove
guardian on
application
6 Md 472;
25 Md 389.

7. The court may, on the application of an infant or any person
in his behalf, suggesting improper conduct in any guardian what-
ever, either in relation to the care and management of the property
or person of any infant, inquire into the same, and at their discre-
tion remove such guardian and make choice of another, who shall
give security, and conduct himself in the manner herein prescribed,
and shall receive the property and custody of the said ward.

Id s 231
1798, c 101,
sub-c 15, s 13
May issue sum-
mons to any
part of State.

8. The court may issue a summons for any person concerned in
the affairs of a deceased person, for a witness, or any other person
whose appearance in said courts shall be deemed necessary or proper
for any purpose. And such summons may issue to any county in
the State, and shall be returnable in their discretion, and they may
enforce obedience to their summons by attachment, and may punish
the party for his contempt, by a fine not exceeding thirty dollars.

Id s 234
1798, c 101,
sub-c 15, s 13
May compel
witnesses to
testify

0. The court may, if a witness before the court shall refuse to
give evidence, commit him to the custody of the sheriff or coroner,
as the case may he, until he give evidence or be discharged accord-
ing to law, or they may attach and sequester his estate.

Id s 235
1798 c 101,
sub-c 15, s 15.
Upon two re-
turns of non est
may en force ap-
pearance, etc,
by attachment
of property.

10. The court may, whenever two summonses shall be regularly
returned "non est" by the sheriff, or other officer of the county
where the party last resided, issue an attachment against his lands
and tenements, goods and chattels, and upon return thereof, with a
schedule of the property annexed, may by order or commission
under seal, authorize some person or persons to take into his or
their custody the property contained in such schedule, or any part
thereof, and to receive the profits thereof, to be accounted for until
the party summoned shall appear and obey the order of the court,
or until further order; and the sheriff or other officer shall deliver
the property accordingly. And the person or persons to whom the

Bond of person
to whom seques-
tered property
committed.

same shall be committed, shall, before receiving the same, give bond
with security in such penalty as the court shall direct, for rendering
a true account of such property and the profits, and for the delivery
of the same according to the order of the court, deducting such
allowance for loss, and such commission, not exceeding five per
cent., as the court shall allow; and such bond shall be recorded,
and be in all respects on a footing with an administration bond.

Id s 236
1798, c 101,
sub-c 15, i 15
When and to
whom property
sequestered to
be re-delivered

11. They may, whenever the purpose for which the property
was sequestered is answered, order the same and the profits thereof,
deducting for loss and commission as aforesaid, to be delivered to
the party or to his heirs, devisees, or legal representatives, upon
their respective applications, and satisfying the court of the parties'
right in case the purposes for which the attachment was issued can-
not be answered.

Id s 237
1831, c 315, s 5.
Orders as to
money and the
investment
thereof
2 Md 159, 26
Md 498, 30 Md
553, 32 Md 7,
41 Md 354

12. The Orphans' Courts may in their discretion, and whenever
to them it shall seem proper, either ex officio or upon application,
order any administrator to whom they may have granted adminis-
tration, or any guardian whom they may have appointed, or whose
bond they may have approved, to bring into court, or place in bank, or