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adopted by the person executing the same, unless the contrary
plainly appears by the term thereof, whether such instrument be
executed before or after the adoption.

1892, ch. 264.

62 F. Any inhabitant of any other State adopted as a child in
accordance with the laws thereof, shall upon proof of such fact
be entitled in this State to the same rights of inheritance and
distribution as he would have enjoyed in the State where
adopted except in so far as they may conflict with the provisions
of the five preceding sections.

Non Compos Mentis.

1894, ch. 221.

98. The court which may have appointed a guardian, commit-
tee or trustee of the property of a person non compos mentis
may, upon the application of such guardian, committee or trus-
tee, without any process or order of publication, order or decree
the sale of any real, leasehold or personal property to which such
person non compos mentis may be entitled and order the money
arising therefrom to be invested in stocks or other property, or
in mortgages on real estate or in other safe securities, as the
court may deem most advantageous to such person non compos
mentis; and on the death of such person non compos mentis
the principal arising from any such sale shall pass to and vest in
the person or persons in whom such property would have vested
if the same had not been sold. Any decree or order which may
have been heretofore passed for the sale of the property of any
person non compos mentis shall have the same effect as if it. had
been passed after the adoption of this section.

Hamilton v. Traber, 78 Md. 33 Willis v. Hodson, 79 Md. 331.

Ibid.

99. The court, which may have appointed a guardian, com-
mittee or trustee of the property of a person non compos men-
tis, may, upon the application of such guardian, committee or
trustee, without any process or order of publication, order or
decree any real or leasehold property of a person non compos
mentis to be leased for any term of years, or may order or
-decree the surrender of any lease of the estate or property of