ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1135

CHAPTER 456.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 93 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title, "Testamentary Law, " sub-title,
"Guardian and Ward, " said new section to be known as Sec-
tion 167A, and to follow immediately after Section 167 of
said Article, relating to sales of real estate by guardians.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title, "Testamentary
Law, " sub-title, "Guardian and Ward, " said new section to be
known as Section 167A, to follow immediately after Section
167 of said Article, and to read as follows:

167A. The Orphans' Court may order any guardian to sell
any fee-simple real estate or annual ground rents of his ward,
or any interest of his ward therein, provided that the total
amount of such real estate or rents, or interest therein, owned
by the infant, shall not be appraised at more than $5, 000; and
further provided, that the Court shall be satisfied that such
sale would be for the benefit of the minor or advantageous to
his estate. 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 practiced in cases of
sales of lands under decrees in equity.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 457.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 109
of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Tes-
tamentary Law, " sub-title "Debts, " relating to the notice to-
be given by administrators and executors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 109 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Debts, " be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

109. No administrator who shall, after the full expiration
of the notice herein provided for, have paid away the assets