278                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 257

een] twenty-one years or of unsound mind, incapable according to
law of making a contract or convicted of any crime rendering him
infamous according to law, or if any person named as executor shall
not be a citizen of the United States, letters testamentary or of
administration (as the case may be) may be granted in the same
manner as if such person had not been named in the will.

64.

When a person named in a will as executor shall be alleged to be
under the age of [eighteen] twenty-one years, it shall be incum-
bent on the person making the allegation to establish the same by
such proof as is usually required in such cases.

65.

A married woman shall be entitled to letters testamentary or
letters of administration in the same manner as if she were un-
married, and shall give bond with the same conditions annexed
as herein provided in this article for the bonds of executors and
administrators [, and the bond of any executrix or administratrix
who is unmarried and eighteen years of age or over shall be bind-
ing in the same manner as if she were of the full age of twenty-
one years].

159.

Where a bequest of personal property or money is made to a
female, and directed by the will to be paid on her attaining to full,
mature or lawful age, such female shall be entitled to receive and
demand such personal property or money on her arriving at the age
of [eighteen years, or being married] twenty-one.

164.

Whenever land shall descend or be devised to a male or female
under the age of twenty-one years, or any such male or female shall
be entitled to a distributive share of the personal estate of any in-
testate, or to a legacy or bequest under a last will or codicil, or may
acquire any real or personal property or estate by gift or by purchase,
and the said male or female shall not have a guardian appointed by
last will and testament, agreeably to law, the orphans' court of the
county in which such infant shall reside shall have power to ap-
point a guardian to such infant until the age of twenty-one years
[if a male, and, in the case of a female, until her marriage or she
attains the age of twenty-one (21) years, whichever shall first
occur]; and such appointment may be made at any time after the
probate of the will, or administration granted on the estate of the
deceased under whom the infant appears to be so entitled 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.

189.

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 all the 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