J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor 117

121.

In cases where proceedings have been or shall be instituted for
the renewal of a lease containing a covenant for renewal, INCLUD-
ING A LEASE FOR NINETY-NINE YEARS, RENEWABLE FOR-
EVER, the court may pass a decree for the renewal of such lease,
which shall be binding upon all persons who shall have become parties
to such proceedings by summons or appearance, or who shall have been
proceeded against by publication [, as provided by statute or rule
of court; ] pursuant to Chapter 100 of the Maryland Rules; and such
decree shall be sufficient to renew the title of all persons interested
under such lease, according to their respective interests and estates
thereunder, for such additional term, under such rent and upon such
covenants, condition and stipulations as were provided in such lease.

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134.

The use of a sheriff's jury in proceedings to determine the sanity
of an alleged lunatic is hereby abolished. Upon the filing of a petition
for adjudication of a person as an incompetent in accordance with
the Maryland Rules, [a writ de lunatico inquirendo, ] the sanity of
the alleged lunatic shall be determined in the first instance by the
circuit courts of the several counties in equity or the Circuit Court
of Baltimore City, as the case may be '[. J, sitting with a jury, the
trial to be conducted as in a civil action at law. [The jury to be used
in such proceedings shall be empanelled by the court, from the jurors
in attendance upon the law or criminal court in said county or city,
or, if there be no jurors in attendance, the court shall forthwith
select twenty (20) good and lawful men from the names upon the
regular jury list of the last jury term of the law or criminal court
in said county or city to be summoned to attend as jurors in said
case. The summoning of said jurors and the empanelling of a jury
of twelve men from said regular panel or from said list of jurors so
summoned shall proceed as far as practicable in accordance with
the rules and practice of obtaining for the selection and empanelling
of jurors in other civil cases. ]

135.

The court shall have power also to appoint a committee or trustee
to take charge of and manage the property of any person incom-
petent by reason of a mental disability, and the court may, upon
application of said committee or trustee, order or decree the sale of
any real property or any interest therein to which said incompetent
may be entitled, and the proceeds therefrom to be invested or other-
wise disposed of as provided by this sub-title.

The application therefor, may be made by next friend, shall be by
petition under oath, accompanied by certificates, sworn to and sub-
scribed by two physicians licensed to practice medicine, [medical
doctors practicing in the State of Maryland, for the last five years
or two attending neuropsychiatrists, ] one of whom shall have at-
tended the alleged incompetent within the ten days before the filing
of the petition.