ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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acknowledged and recorded as herein provided; and all such deeds

shall b6 acknowledged before some one of the officers named in

sections two, three, four and five of this article, and that any un-

Power to

married woman between the age of eighteen years and twenty-one
years, shall have power to make a deed of trust of her property,

deed.

real, personal or mixed; provided the same shall be approved and

sanctioned by a court having equity jurisdiction in the city or

county where the grantor resides, upon the petition of the said

grantor, and such proof as the said court in its discretion may

require.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1890.

CHAPTER 211.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section one

hundred and seventy-one, of article ninety-three, of the Code

of Public General Laws, title "Testamentary Law," sub-title

" Guardian and Ward."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section one hundred and seventy-one, of article ninety- three,

Release.

of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Testamentary Law,"

sub-title " Guardian and Ward," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted to read as follows :

SEC. 171. They shall order the guardian who has received from

any trustee of a court of equity any proceeds of real estate of hia

ward sold by such trustee, or the proceeds of the sale of leasehold

estate of his ward sold by order of the orphans' court, or moneys

belonging to his ward, to invest the same in mortgages on unen-

cumbered real estate, worth at least double the amount loaned, or

such public stocks, permanent funds or other good securities to be

To Invest.

selected by said guardian as will yield the highest rate of interest

that can reasonably be had, and said investment shall be reported

to the court for its approval before becoming permanent, and the

increase or surplus interest of such investment after what may be

necessary for the maintenance and education of the ward shall

be invested in like manner under the direction and approval of

the court, and no part of the principal shall be applied to the

maintenance and education of the ward without the order and

consent of the orphans' court first had and obtained.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved March 31, 1890.

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