ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

have a guardian appointed by last will and tes-
tament, agreeably to law, the orphans' court of
the county in which such infant shall reside,
shall have power to appoint a guardian to such
infant until the age of twenty-one years if a
male, and until the age of eighteen if a female

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or married; and such appointment may be made
at any time after the probate of the will, or ad-
ministration granted on the estate of the de-
ceased under whom the infant appears to be so en-
titled to land, and it may be made, if the court
shall think proper in the case of personal estate,
either before or after the administrator shall
have passed his account.

Appointment
—when made.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 447.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendment
section nine of article twenty-nine of the Code
of Public General Laws, title "Courts."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

Effective.

bly of Maryland, That section nine of article
twenty-nine of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Courts," be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendment so as to
read as follows :
(9) . In all actions brought in any court founded

Repealed and
re-enacted.

on account, or on which it may be necessary to
examine and determine on accounts between the
parties, the court may order the accounts and
dealings between the parties to be audited and
stated by an auditor or auditors to be appointed
by such court, and there shall be the same pro-
ceedings thereon as in courts of equity upon bills
for an account, reserving to the parties, how-
ever, the right to a jury trial if demanded.

May audit ac-
counts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall :
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Effective.