164 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

Sales.

1906, ch. 537.

281. No executor or administrator shall sell any property
of his decedent without an order of the orphans' court granting
his letters being first had and obtained authorizing such sale;

and any sale made without an order of court previously had as
aforesaid shall be void, and no title shall pass thereby to the
purchaser; provided, however, that all sales of leasehold prop-
erty heretofore made by executors or administrators without a
previous order of the orphans1 court authorizing the same, but
which have been duly reported to and finally ratified by said
orphans' court, shall be valid to all effects and purposes as if
such previous order had been obtained. *

Approved April 3, 1906.

Wills.

1906, ch. 59, sec. 313A.

322 A. No devise or bequest hereafter made or heretofore
made in any will or testament which shall hereafter be pro-
bated, or any real or personal property of the value of five
thousand dollars or less, in trust or otherwise, for the purpose
of providing for the perpetual care or keeping in good order
and condition, or making repairs to any lot, vault, mausoleum
or other place of sepulture belonging to any individual or sev-
eral individuals, in any cemetery or graveyard intended for the
burial of the members of the family, family connections, rela-
tives or friends of the owner thereof, or of their successors in
ownership, shall be held to be void as offending the rule against
perpetuities.

Ibid. sec. 322 A.

322 B. No conveyance, assignment or devise of any burial
lot in any cemetery or graveyard, to any trustee in trust to hold
the same in trust perpetually, or for any lesser period for the
interment therein of any persons named or described, or of any
family or descendants, or for the care and protection thereof
against desecration or injury, shall be held void as a violation
of the rule against perpetuities.

Approved March 8, 1906.

*Called section 276 in the act.