ART. 93] GUARDIAN AND WARD. 2005
settle their accounts, and subject to the like control and,
authority of the court in all respects; and the said account
shall be separate and distinct from the administration of the
personal estate of the deceased; and the orphans' court shall
thereupon pass an order directing such administrator to pay
over to the guardian or guardians, or to the person entitled,
as the case may be, any money remaining in his hands belong-
ing to such infant, which shall have arisen from the profit of
the real estate belonging to such infant, and also to deliver
over to such guardian or guardians, or person entitled, the real
estate of such infant; and upon neglect or refusal of the admin-
istrator to obey such order, or to return an account as herein
directed, his administration bond shall be liable to be sued by
such guardian or guardians, or person entitled, and the orphans'
court may moreover proceed against him by attachment and
sequestration.
1888, art. 93, sec. 154. 1860, art. 93, sec. 154. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 12, sec. 3.
1816, ch. 203, sec. 1.
163. Every natural guardian, or guardian appointed by last
will and testament of the estate or property of infants shall
give bond, with securities to be approved by the orphans'
court, as directed in the next succeeding section.
Fridge v. State, 3 G. & J. 103. Jarrett B. State, 5 G. & J. 27. Lefevre v.
Lefevre, 6 Md. 472.
Ibid. sec. 155. 1860, art. 93, sec 155. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 12, sec. 4
1831, ch. 315, sec. 11.
164. Every guardian appointed by the court, and every
guardian by will, or natural guardian, before he proceeds to
act as such, shall enter into bond to the State of Maryland in
such penalty and with such sureties as the court shall approve,
and to be recorded and be subject to be put in' suit, and to be
in all respects on a footing with an administration bond, with
the following condition : "The condition of the above obliga-
tion is such, that if the above bounden ————, as guardian to
————, of ———— county, shall faithfully account with the
orphans' court of ———— county, as directed by law, for the
management of the property and estate of the infant under his
care, and shall also deliver up the said property agreeably to
the order of the said court or the directions of law, and shall
in all respects perform the duty of guardian to the said ——,
according to law, then the above obligation shall cease; it shall
otherwise remain in full force and virtue in law ;" and the said
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