Chapter 100. To amend section 115b of subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Code
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CHAP. 100.— An Act To amend section 115b of subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Code.February 10, 1927.[[H. R. 12109](/us/bill/69/hr/12109).][[Public, No. 597](/us/pl/69/597).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia Code.Vol. 32, p. 624, amended. That section 115b of subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Code be amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 115b.
Estates of Lunatics.— The said court shall haveEstates of lunatics.Committee for care, etc., to be appointed by the court. full power and authority to superintend and direct the affairs of persons non compos mentis, and to appoint a committee or trustees for such persons after hearing the nearest relatives of such person, or some of them if residing within the jurisdiction of the court, and to make such orders and decrees for the care of their persons and the management and preservation of their estates, including the collection, sale, exchange, and reinvestment of their personal estate, as to the court may seem proper.
In the event that the person hasGuardian ad litem if no relative in jurisdiction of court. no known relative residing within the jurisdiction of the court, then the court shall appoint some disinterested per soil to act as guardian ad litem for such person in the proceedings for the appointment of a committee or trustee. The committee or trustee shall account forAccounting, etc. all profit and increase of the estate of such person and the annual value thereof and shall be credited for taxes, repairs, improvements, expenses.
The court shall allow a reasonable compensation forCompensation, services rendered by the committee not exceeding a commission of 5 per centum of the amounts collected if and when disbursed. TheRelease of dower, etc. court may, upon such terms as under the circumstances of the case it may deem proper, decree the conveyance and release of any right of dower of a person non compos mentis, whether the same be inchoate or otherwise.” " Approved, February 10, 1927.