1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 38.

terms of the said settlement, and hath prayed that the
said powers may be granted to him; and whereas, the
said petition appears to be reasonable: — Therefore,

Authority gran-
ted in the pre-
mises.

SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That James H. McCulloh, of the city of
Baltimore, shall have full power and authority, by any
last will and testament or other testamentary writing,
duly executed, to pass real estate, to limit and appoint
to any person or persons whatever, an estate in fee sim-
ple or any less estate in a house and lot described in a
deed from Solomon Berkhead to James H. McCulloh,
now deceased, bearing date on or about the sixteenth
day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and
recorded among the land records of Baltimore county
in Liber W. G. No. 210, folio 290, &c. such estates,

To take effect
only in case.

limitations and appointments to take effect only in the
event of the death of John K. McCulloh, son of the said

Otherwise void.

James H. McCulloh, without lawful issue before he
attains the age of twenty-one years, but if the said
John K. McCulloh should attain the age of twenty-one
years, or should have lawful issue surviving him, then
the limitations and appointments so made by the said
James H. McCulloh shall be null and void and of no
effect.

Authorised to
sell and invest.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said James H.
McCulloh, acting for himself, and as natural guardian
of the said John K. McCulloh, shall have full power
and authority to sell and dispose in fee simple of the
house and lot in the first section mentioned, and invest
the proceeds thereof in such property as he may think
proper, to be settled and limited according to the pro-
visions of this act of Assembly, and of the deed of set-
tlement above mentioned; provided, that the sale and
investment under this section be made under the direc-
tion of and with the approbation of the orphans' court
of Baltimore county.