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wills & granting administracons but alsoe for the Justices of
the severall and Respective County Courts to proceed by and
noe other allowances shall be made to any administrator or
Guardian to any Orphant vppon his or their accompts Except
for debts by them truely paid out of the said Estate and Really
owing by the Intestate Viz^t

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First that noe Negroes or other slaues shall be sold or dis-
posed of by any Administrator for payment of debts or other-
wise or Reserved for the administrators Owne use in Satis-
faccon for any debt due to the said Administrator nor any
Execucon served vpon any Negroes or other Slaues soe long as
there shall be other goods of the deceased Sufficient to Satisfye
the Iust debts of the deceased that noe accompt be allowed for
dyett Clothes Phisick or Educacon against any Orphants
Estates but that they be provided for and Educated by the
Interest of their Estate and Encrease of their Stock according
to the proportion of their Estates if itt will beare itt but if the
Estate be soe meane & inconsiderable that itt will not Extend
to a free Educacon That itt is Enacted that such Orphants
shall be bound apprentices to some handycraft Trades or other
person att the discrecon of the Justices of the County Court
vntill one & twenty yeares of age Except some kinsman or
Relacon will maintaine them for the Interest of their smale
Estate they haue without diminucon of the Principall which
whether great or Smale shall allwaies be delivered att the
yeares by this Act appointed.
3^dly That all Cattle Horses Sheepe be Returned in kinde by
the Guardians according to the age and Number when as he
Received them and because severall had before the makeing of
this Act Estates of Orphants in their hands which they kept
for the male Increase and giveing a yearely accompt of the
Augmentacon or Diminucon of the Orphants stocks which by
Carelesnesse or wickednesse of the Guardians was usually
Consumed before they came to age and dispute thereupon
ariseing in the severall Courts how such persons should be
proceeded with and accompt of the Orphants Estates how to
be given them It is hereby declared that all persons possessed
of Orphants Stocks before the makeing of this act shall be
bound to deliver to the Orphants when he comes of age such
and soe many of any kind as he is possessed with when he
gives his accompt to the next Orphants Courts Succeeding the
Publicacon of this Act.
4^thly That all plate mony Rings & Jewells be preserved &
delivered in kind according to the weight and quantity and
that other household stuffe & Lumber be appraysed in money
and the value thereof paid by the Guardian to the Orphant
when he comes to age either in money Sterling according to

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