MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                         97

ARTICLE 10

(b)    Section 29 of Article 10 of said Code (1968 Replacement
Volume), title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact," subtitle
"Who May not Practice Law":

29. No judge of any court of this State [including the judges of
the orphans' courts,] shall act as attorney or solicitor in any court
of law or equity in this State, during the time for which he shall act
as such.

ARTICLE 16

(c)    Section 78 (b) of Article 16 of said Code (1966 Replacement
Volume), title "Chancery," subtitle "Adoption," and Sections 192,
195 and 198 of said Article, subtitle "Trustee":

78.

(b) The natural parents of the person adopted, if living, shall
after the interlocutory decree be relieved of all legal duties and obli-
gations due from them to the person adopted, and shall be divested
of all rights with respect to such person. Upon the entry of a decree
of adoption, [the adopted child shall lose all rights of inheritance
from its natural parents and from their natural collateral or lineal
relatives. The rights of the natural parents or their collateral or
lineal relatives to inherit from such child shall cease upon the said
adoption.] all rights of inheritance between the child and the nat-
ural relatives shall be governed by Article 93. Nothing contained in
this section shall limit in any way the right of any person to provide
for the distribution of his property by will.

[When the adopting parent is married to the natural parent of
the child, nothing contained in this section shall affect the rights of
a parent's inheritance between the child and the natural parent or
their collateral or lineal relatives.]

192.

Whenever by any will hereafter probated or by any deed or other
instrument hereafter executed a power to sell, mortgage, lease or
otherwise dispose of real or personal estate shall be given to any one
or more trustees [, executors] or other fiduciary officers, such power,
whether discretionary or otherwise, shall be construed to be appur-
tenant to the fiduciary office and shall pass to and be exercisable by
any surviving trustees [, executor] or other fiduciary, or by any
successor in the office however appointed, unless an intention to the
contrary is expressly declared in such will, deed or other instrument.

195.

Courts of equity within this State shall have full jurisdiction to
enforce trusts for charitable purposes, upon suit of the State by the
Attorney General or upon the suit of any person or persons having
an interest in the enforcement thereof; and as to all trusts hereafter
created for charitable purposes, whether by gift, deed, will or other
form of settlement, and whether the subject thereof be real or per-
sonal property, it shall be no objection to the validity or enforce-
ability of such trusts or of such gift, deed, bequest, devise, etc., that