2048 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93

that may be at the time of sale on the farm or lands of any
person dying within this State, shall not be sold by the
administrator, but shall be left upon the farm for the use
thereof; provided, the person so dying shall leave issue or
relations who may inherit the said lands from him, or a
devisee to whom he may have devised the same.

1888, art. 93, sec. 281. 1860, art. 93, sec. 279. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 6, sec. 12.
1807, ch. 136, sec. 1.

286. An administrator shall either finish the crop on hand
at the death of the decedent, or sell the same, as he shall judge
the most convenient; and in case he shall not deem it con-
venient to finish the crop, the person entitled to the land on
the death of the decedent, or his guardian, or next friend for
him, in case of infancy of the party, may take the said crop at
the appraisement of the appraisers, paying ready money, or
giving bond with good security, approved by the orphans'
court or the register of wills, if the said court shall not be in
session at the time of making such sale, for paying the money
within six months; and in case the said party or his guardian
shall not take the crop at the appraisement, the administrator
may sell the same to any other person for ready money, or on
credit, as aforesaid; provided, that he shall not sell it at less
than the appraised value without the approbation of the
orphans' court granting the administration, or an order pre-
scribing the terms by the said court passed as aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 282. 1860, art. 93, sec. 280. 1831, ch. 315, secs. 10, 11...
1833, ch. 262. 1865, ch. 51. 1884, ch. 426

287. In all cases where an executor may be authorized and
directed to sell the real estate of a testator, such executor may
sell and convey the same, and shall account therefor to the
orphans' court of the county where he obtained letters, in the
same manner that an executor is bound to account for the sales
of personal estate; and the orphans' court may allow such
executor a commission on the proceeds of such sale, not less
than two nor more than ten per cent.; but such sale shall not
be valid or effectual unless ratified and confirmed by the
orphans' court, after notice by publication given in the same
manner as practised in cases of sales of lands under decrees
in equity; and the bond of such executor shall be answerable
for the proceeds of sales of the real estate which may come
into his possession, to the same extent as if it were personal
estate in his hands; in case the purchaser of any such real