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 Rh inventory from a surviving parent. In South Africa every tutor and every curator must make such inventory within thirty days of the date of his entering on office. If a guardian fails herein, he is liable (besides other penalties) to removal; as he is, also, if he wilfully omits items of credit or inserts false items of debit. A surviving parent who, in preparing the inventory, fraudulently conceals any property forfeits his or her interest therein. A similar inventory must be made by parent or guardian in the event of any property coming to a minor from any source whatever, e. g. by testament, either during the lifetime of both parents or after the death of one or both of them. The inventory when complete must be delivered to the Orphan Chamber, or in Cape Colony to the Master of the Supreme Court.

3. Distribution of the estate. The next duty of the guardian (and this is the object of the inventory), is, subject to the control of the proper authority, to see that each child has assigned to him his proper share in the property in question. This done, the guardian proceeds