1376 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.
court, and shall deliver up, agreeably to the court's order, to the
said ward, all the property of such ward in his hands, including
bonds and other securities; and on failure, his bond may be put
in suit, and he shall be liable to attachment and fine not exceed-
ing three hundred dollars; and a female shall be of age at eigh-
teen years, for the purposes of this section.
Pottenger's Exrx v. Steuart, 3 H & J. 347. Cropster v. Griffith, 6 H. & J.
144. Bower's Admrs v. State, 7 H. & J. 32. Fridge v. State, 3 G. & J. 103.
Gardiner v. Hardey,12 G. & J. 370. Richards v. Swan, 7 Gill, 366. Crapster
v. Griffith, 2 Bl 5. Spalding v. Brent, 3 Md. Ch. 411. Griffith v. Parks, 32
Md. 1. State v. Henderson, 54 Md 332.
P. G L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 193. 1729, ch. 24, sec. 7.
193. It shall not be lawful for any person whatsoever, not
being guardian, or not having license from a guardian, to enter
into, possess or occupy any lands or tenements belonging to any
orphan or orphans, without first applying to the orphans' court
where the land lies, and obtaining leave from them for such rents
as they shall think just and reasonable, to be paid to such orphan
or orphans, on pain of being trespassers, and paying treble
damages and full costs to such orphan or orphans, to be recovered
by the guardian during the orphan's minority, or by the orphan,
when at fall age.
Gunby v. Selby, 2 H. & J. 244. Drury v. Conner, 1 H. & G. 220. Wells v.
Beall, 2 G. & J. 468. Hungerford v. Bourne, 3 G. & J. 133. Robinson v.
Townshend, 3 G. & J. 413. Magruder v. Feter, 4 G. & J 323. Burch v. State,
4 G. & J 444. Chaney v. Smallwood, 1 Gill, 367. Magruder v. Darnall, 6 Gill,.
269. Addison v. Bowie, 2 Bl 606.
Ibid. sec. 194. 1729, ch. 24, sec. 9.
194. Whenever the orphans' court shall be in any manner
informed of any waste being done by any guardian upon any
orphan's estate, the said court shall issue their warrant to cause
such guardian to appear before them; and if upon the said guar-
dian's appearance before them, and being heard in his defence, or
on his refusal to appear, being summoned, such information shall
appear to be true, the said court shall order the sheriff, with all
possible speed, to summon a jury upon the place where the waste
shall be committed, to inquire upon their oath into the same, and
of what damage such waste shall be to such orphan, which being
returned to the said court, they are hereby required to oblige the
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