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ARTICLE XCIII.

TESTAMENTARY LAW.

	Guardian and Ward. 170A. Orphans' Court may authorize conveyance of ground rents to owners of leasehold by guar- dian upon proper petition. Orphans' Court. 227. Salaries of judges. Sessions of court in Baltimore city.	Sales. 275A. Court shall have power to direct sale of personal estate of 'decedent. 290A. Court may ratify sales at once upon consent of parties.

Guardian and Ward.

. 1900, ch. 370.

170A. 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 redeem-
able; 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 the owner of the lease-
hold estate, his heirs and assigns, all right, title, interest and
estate of the said infant owners of the fee and reversion, either
at law or in equity, in and to the same; and the money arising
from such redemption of ground rents shall be accounted for by
said guardians in the orphans' court ordering such transfer and
conveyance. Every petition by guardians as aforesaid, shall set
forth the location and a description of the land, the liber and folio
of the land records wherein the same is recorded; the date of
the lease whereby the said rent was created; the amount of the
annual ground rent; the amount at and for which the ground
rent is redeemable, and the petition shall also state that notice as
required by law, or as required by the lease, as the case may be,