1819.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 101.

Commissioners to
take an oath

Trustee may be
appointed

William Turnbull, setting forth that the said William Turnbull is
of unsound mind, and praying that a commission de lunatico inqui-
rendo may issue to such commission directed to three or more com-
missioners to be by the said court named.
2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners before they
proceed to act, shall take an oath well and truly to inquire if the
said William Turnbull be of sound mind, and if they shall find and
return an inquisition that the said William Turnbull is of unsound
mind, and not capable of governing himself, then and in that case,
it shall and may be lawful for the said court to make such order and
decree in and relating to the person and estate of the said William
Turnbull, as the chancellor now can in and relating to the persons
and estates of ideots, lunatics, and persons non compos mentis.
3. And be it enacted, That if the said commissioners shall make
the return as aforesaid, then it shall and may be lawful for the said
county court to appoint a trustee for the management of the person,
and estate of the said William Turnbull, and the said trustee, after
giving bond in such sum, and with such security as to the said
county court shall seem fit and proper, for the faithful discharge of
his duty as trustee as aforesaid, is hereby invested with full power
and authority, in his own name, to sue for, compound for, lease or
sell, all or any part of the lands or estate which the said William
Turnbull is entitled to within the state of Kentucky, or elsewhere,
and the money arising therefrom to invest in such stock or stocks
as the said county court shall seem most secure and useful to the
said William Turnbull, and his family, during his life, and after
his decease to and for the use and benefit of his wife and children,
in such rights and interests as they would have held said estate if
the same had not been sold, and subject to the like operations of law
in rase of the death of his said wife and children, or either of them,
as if no such sale had been made.

Passed Feb 2, 1820
Preamble

CHAP. CII.

' An Act to empower the Chancellor or Baltimore County Court to make such
Decree as to them shall seem just and right in the case therein mentioned.

Whereas it appears to this general assembly, by the memorial
of Robert and John Oliver, Samuel Moale, and William M'Mechen,
of the city of Baltimore, that the said William M'Mechen on the
fifth of April eighteen hundred and fifteen, duly made and execut-
ed a deed of conveyance to James P. Boyd, and the said Samuel
Moale, in fee simple, of certain real estate therein named, in trust
for securing the payment of certain debts also therein specified, and
with power to sell the said real estate, or any part thereof, for the
purposes of the trust; among which debts was a very considerable
one due from the said William M'Mechen to the said Robert and
John Oliver, for money some time before lent to him, all which ap-
pears by a copy of the said conveyance accompanying the said me-
morial: And whereas, it became necessary for the payment of all
the debts mentioned in the trust, to sell the said real estate, but that
the said James P. Boyd unfortunately became incompetent, by men-
tal incapacity, to act in execution of the trust, and that a petition
was filed in the court of chancery by some of the parties interested,
for a decree to enable the other trustee, (the said Samuel Moale,)
to act alone; and that upon consideration of the .said petition, and
the answers of the defendants, the chancellor passed such a decree,