2002 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93

shall have power to appoint a guardian to such infant until the
age of twenty-one years, if a male, and until the age of eighteen,
if a female or married; and such appointment may be made at
any time after the probate of the will, or administration granted
on the estate of the deceased under whom the infant appears
to be so entitled to land, and it may be made if the court shall
think proper, in the case of personal estate, either before or
after the administrator shall have passed his account.

Haney v. Waddle, 3 H. & J 557. Brodress v. Thompson, 2 H. & G 120.
Fridge v. State, 3 G. & J. 103. Kraft v. Wickey, 4 G. & J. 332. Jenkins v.
Walters, 8 G. & J. 218. Swan v. Dent, 7 Gill, 366 Barnes v. Crain, 8 Gill,
395... Corrie's Case, 2 Bl. 488. Helms v. Franciscus, Z Bl. 544. Waring v.
Waring, 2 Bl. 673. Swan v. Dent, 2 Md. Ch. 111. State v Baker, 8 Md. 44.
Williams v. Holmes, 9 Md. 290.

1888, art 93, sec 145 1860, art. 93, sec. 145. 1834, ch. 291, sec. 4.

144. In case any infant in this State shall be entitled to
personal property by purchase or by gift, other than by last
will and testament, recorded in this State, and there be no
guardian appointed to such infant within this State, the
orphans' court of the county in which such infant shall reside
shall have the right to appoint a guardian to such infant.

Ibid. sec. 146. 1860, art. 93, sec. 146. 1834, ch. 291, sec. 2.

145. The orphans' court shall have the right and power to
appoint a guardian to any such infant as aforesaid, although
such infant may have a father or mother living at the time of
such appointment; provided, notice be given by the court, by
publication or otherwise, to such father, or mother (if there be
no father living), to show cause why such appointment should
not be made; and such appointment shall be as valid in every
respect as if the father and mother of such infant were both
dead at the time; but nothing herein contained shall prevent
the said courts from appointing the father or mother of such
infant its guardian if the court to whom the appointment prop-
erly belongs shall, in its discretion, deem such father or mother
a fit and proper person to be so appointed.

Smith v Williamson, 1 H. & J. 147. Hay v. Conner, 2 H. & J. 347.
Mercer v Walmsley, 5 H. & J. 27. Corrie's Case, 2 Bl. 488. Helms v.
Franciscus, 2 Bl. 544. Addison v. Bowie, 2 Bl. 606. Mayor & C. C. of
Balto, v. Norman, 4 Md. 352. Keller v. Connelly; 5 Md. 211. Greenwood
v. Greenwood, 28 Md. 369. Redman v. Chance, 32 Md. 42. Ramsay v.
Thompson, 71 Md. 319.