FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

be entitled and order the money arising therefrom to
be invested in stocks or other property, or in mort-
gages on real estate or in other safe securities, as the court
may deem most advantageous to such person non compos
mentis; and on the death of such person non compos mentis
the principal arising from any such sale shall pass to and vest
in the person or persons in whom such property would have
rested if the same had not been sold. Any decree or order
which may have been heretofore passed for the sale of the
property of any person non compos mentis shall have the same
effect as if it had been passed after the adoption of this
section.

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99. The court, which may have appointed a guardian, com-
mittee or trustee of the property of a person non compos:
mentis, may, upon the application of such guardian, committee
or trustee, without any process or order of publication, order
or decree any real or leasehold property of a person non com-
pos mentis to be leased for any term of years, or may order or
decree the surrender of any lease of the estate or property of
such person non compos mentis to be accepted, and the same
to be demised anew on such terms and conditions as the court
may direct.

Lease of such
property.

100. In all applications by a guardian, committee or trustee
of the property of a person non compos mentis to sell any of
the real, leasehold or personal property of such person non
compos mentis, or to demise any of the real or leasehold
property of such person non compos mentis, or to accept the
surrender of lease thereof, the court shall, before passing an
order or decree, have proof taken as in other chancery cases as
to the value, quantity and condition of the property, and after
considering all the circumstances, if the court shall deem it the
interest and advantage of such person non compos mentis, it
may order or decree a sale, lease or surrender of a lease of the
whole or any part of the said property on such terms and con-
ditions as the court may prescribe.

Proof as to
value of
property.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That this act shall take effect immediately
on its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

Effective.