The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-13
fPuBIIc-No, SAL


AN ACT supplementary to the act passed on the
twentieth day Of February, eighteen hundred and
fory-sx, entitled IAN act to enlarge the powers
of the several orphans courts held in and for the
District Of Columbia"
BE enacted BY the Senate and House Of Rsprsssn.
taipss Of The United States Of 4uerica in Congress
assembled That every orphan other infant TO whom
the orphans courts of the District Of Columbia are
authorized and empowered by the act to which this
act is supplementary, by any other law in force IN
the said District, in either county thereof to APP
point guardian shall be entitled, arriving at the
age of fourteen years, or at any age between four
teen and twenty one years, notwithstanding any APP
pointmenr Of guardian before made by such courts,
or either then % elect guardian for himself or
herself: J. ct. ideI The orphans court within whose
jurisdico ..uy be The person and residence of such
orphan, or any property, real, personal, or mixed
TO which such orphan Is entitled, or where guar
dian had been duly appointed before, the court by
which said former guardian had been appointed ap-
prove the character and competency Of the person
elected GUARDIAN find propided Such orphans court
shall and may require of the guardian so elected,
such security, and exercise towards him all such
jurisdiction and powers for compelling the faithful
administration of his trust, provided in the
said act or any other law in force as aforesaid, in
the cases Of guardians appointed by the said court;
and If the said court, in the due exercise of such
its jurisdiction and powers, shall fit to super
cede and remove such guardian, or If such guardian
such orphan, the said shall forth with cite such
orphan to appear and make a new election or guar
dian, which such orphan may do under the same
conditions and restrictions as are hereinbefore pre-
scribed in respect to the original election Of guar
dian; and for the interval of time between the
moval, death, or incompetency of the first elected
guardian and the new election of another by such
orphan, the said court may, if it deem it expedien
appoint guardian ad interim until such election
be made taking such security ofsuch guardian ad ite
rim, and exercising over him such Jurisdiction and
powers, as are or may be required and given in the
of other guardians; And provided further Thai
where guardian liz to be superseded by such cleo.
ton, he shall have notice of the application by sum
mons in writing. ,.
SEC g find be Il further enacted, That il any sure
y of guardian, by petition the court before which
he was bound, setting forth that he apprehends
himself or herself to be in danger of suffering there
by, shall pray that he may be relieved, the said
court, aftera summons to answer the petition shal
have been served upon the guardian, or a copy o.
such summons left at the place of his usual abode
shall order him to give counter security for the com
plee indemnity of the original surety or to deliver
the wards estate into the hands of the surety or d
some other person; in either of which cases it shall
take sufficient security of the person into whose hands
the wards estate shall be delivered as aforesaid; and
such court shall and may make such further and
other order for the relief Of the petitioner as to il
shall seem just.
APPROVED, August 8, 1876.