328 Assembly Proceedings, October 1671.

Liber
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appraysement or in Tobacco att the then price Currant and in
case any difference shall arise what shall be the then price
Currant that the Judges of the County Court where the
Orphants Estate doth Lye determine what shall be the then
price Currant.
5 ^thly That every male Orphant shall be accompted to be of
full age att the yeares of one and twenty and att that age to
Receive his Estate from the Guardian but in case any person

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by his last will and Testament doe appoint any person to be
Executor that is full seventeene yeares of age That person soe
appointed shall be adjudged of sufficient age to administer as
Executor And if such Executor happen to be under the age
of seventeene the Administracon to be granted to such other
person as the Judge in Testamentory businesse shall approue
of till such Executor accomplish the full age of seventeene and
that such administracon be granted to the vse and profitt of
the Infant Executor and not otherwise nor in any other
manner,
6^thly That every female Orphant shall be accompted of full
age to Receive her Estate at the age of Sixteene yeares or day
of marriage which shall first happen provided shee be above
sixteene yeares of age att the day shee is marryed.
7^ly That all Negroes and other Slaues shall be after the
transmitting of the Estate to the County Courts as aforesaid
appraysed to the administrators and Guardians and be pre-
served by them & Imployed to the said Administrators &
guardians use & benefitt and the like number of Slaues and of
like abilityes Returned to the said Orphants out of their En-
crease if any bee att their severall full ages by this Law
Limitted and if any of the said Slaues be grown aged or other-
wise impotent or be Lamed and that the Encrease will not make
the Originall stock good as to number & ability of body that
then they shall againe be appraysed by the said County Courts
and the administrators and Guardians shall pay to the said
Orphants soe much money or Tobacco as the County Courts
shall Judge the Orphants stock of Negroes then to be of Lesse
value then they were of att the time of the first appraysement
and delivery of the said slaues to the said Administrators &
Guardians But in case the said Administrators & Guardians
will not uppon these tearmes accept of such slaues then itt
shall be Lawfull for the said severall and Respective County
Courts to putt the said Slaues out upon any other Tearmes
and to any other persons soe that the said Originall stock of
Slaves and their Encrease be not sould but in the best manner
that may be preserued for the Orphants till they come to
their severall full ages by this Act Limitted & appointed to the
Intent they may haue their first stock made good to them in
Number vallue and ability.