1372 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 176. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 12, sec. 11.

176. In the first account to be rendered by a guardian, he
shall state the property received by him from an executor,
administrator, or otherwise, belonging to his ward, and every
increase, and the profits thence arising, if any.

Spedden v. State, 3 H. & J. 251. O'Hara v. Sheppard, 3 Md. Ch. 306.

Gibbs v. Cunningham, 4 Md. Ch 322. Magruder v. Darnall, 6 Gill, 258.
Richards v. Swan, 7 Gill, 366. Barnes v. Compton's Admrs., 8 Gill, 391.

Crapster v. Griffith, 2 Bl. 1. State v. Baker, 8 Md. 44. McClellan v. Ken-
nedy, 8 Md 230.

Ibid sec. 177. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 12, sec. 13.

177. Every account of a guardian shall state his expenditures
in maintaining and educating his ward, not exceeding the income

of his estate, unless allowed by the court; and for no balance of
money in his hands shall he be charged interest, unless he shall
consent to take the same on interest, but the court may direct
him to invest the same, and for the trouble and care of such
guardian the court may allow any commission not exceeding ten
per cent, on the annual income of the estate.

Whyte v. Dimmock, 55 Md. 452.

Ibid. sec. 178. 1831, ch. 315, sec. 9.

178. Any allowance which may be made by any orphans'

court to a guardian, for the clothing, support, maintenance, educa-
tion, or for other expenses incurred by the guardian for his
ward or his estate, and which shall have accrued subsequent to
the death of the father of such ward, and before the guardian
may have been appointed or given bond, shall have the same

effect and operation in law, to all intents and purposes as if such

expense of the ward or his estate had accrued and become due
subsequent to the time of the appointment of such guardian or
his giving bond.

Ibid. sec. 179. 1834, ch. 223, sec. 1.

179. In all cases in which the mother is left the natural guar-
dian of her infant children, the orphans' court are hereby author-
ized and required to allow the mother, as natural guardian, in the
settlement of her accounts, all such charges, expenses and com-
missions as are or may be authorized by law in the case of other
guardians.