Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699. 537

full age to receive her Estate at the age of Sixteen Years or
Day of Marriage which shall first happen. That all Negros
and other Slaves after the Transmitting the Estate to the
County Court as aforesaid shall be praized to the Guardians
or Trustees and be preserved by them and be Imployed to the
said Guardians or Trustees use and benefitt and the like
number of Slaves and of the like ability of body be returned
to the said Orphans out of their Increase if any be att their
full age by this Law Limitted and if any of the Said Slaves be
grown aged or otherwise Impotent or be lamed and that the
increase will not make the Originall Stock good as to the
Number and ability of body that then they shall be again
appraised by the said County Courts and the Guardians or
Trustees shall pay to the Orphans so much money or To-
bacco as the County Court shall adjudge the Orphans Stock
of Negroes then to be of less Value then they were att the
time of their first Appraisment and delivery of their Said Slaves

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to the said Guardian or Trustees, but in Case no Guardian or
other Person will upon these terms Accept of those Slaves
then it shall and may be Lawfull for the Severall and respect-
ive County Courts to put the said Slaves out upon any other
terms to any other person so that the said Originall Stock of
Slaves be not sold nor any of their Increase but in the best
manner that may be preserved for the Orphans till they Come
to their Severall Ages by this Act Limitted and Appointed to
the Intent they may have theire first Stock made good to
them in Number Value and ability of body if it may be.
That all that are Servants for Years be likewise returned in
Kind to the Orphans att their full Age (that is to say) the
same number att the same Age and Sex and by like Number
of Years to Serve and of the same ability of body as near as
Can be guest as the Servants were when received by the
Guardian or Trustee. Whereas every Administrator in
Inventory incerteth what Debts are Sperate and what Debts
are desperate the Judge for probate of Wills that Transmitt
those Desperate Debts with the Division of the overplus of
the Estate unto the Severall and respective Justices of the
County Courts where the Estate shall lye to the End the said
Justices may inquire whether the said Adm^r have by fraud or
otherwise neglected to recover the Same or have rec^d and
never Accounted for the same and shall with the residue of
the said Estate Comitt the said Desperate Debts to the Care
of the Guardian or other Trustee by them Imployed and shall
Yearly and every Year Call the said Guardians or Trustees to
Acc^t for the Same & duly inspect what of the said Debts they
have rec^d or might have rec^d and if the Said Guardian or
Trustee faile to give his Acc^t Yearly or by fraud or Covin

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