CHAPTER CC.
AN ACT to amend the eighteenth section of the ninety-sixth, Chapter of the Revised Code.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the eighteenth section of the ninety-sixth chapter of the Revised Code, be and the same is hereby amended, by adding to the said section, at the end thereof, the following provisions: If in any case a guardian shall not be able to settle with and pay to his or her ward, on the termination of his or her guardianship, the money due from said guardian to said ward; in consequence of the absence of said ward from this State, and the place of his or her residence being unknown to said guardian, it shall be lawful for said guardian to settle and pay said money into the Orphans' Court in and for the county in which he or she was appointed such guardian, and it shall be the duty of the said Court in which such settlement and payment shall be made as aforesaid to invest the said money for the use and benefit of said ward, and thereupon the said guardian and his or her surety or sureties, shall be discharged from all liability for or on account of the said money so paid into said Court as aforesaid, and of any interest thereon from the date of said payment into said Court as aforesaid.
Passed at Dover, February 12, 1855.