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

Lib. L. L.

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Support of Government and the other halfe to him or them
that shall Sue for the Same to be recovered in the Provinciall
Court by Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoyne Protec-
tion or Wager of Law to be Allowed And be it Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid the Severall & respective Deputy Comis-
sarys which are and shall be in each Severall and respective
Countys within this Province shall and are hereby Sufficiently
Authorized and Impowered to pass Audite and Allow all such
Accounts as shall Come before them relateing to Dead mens
Estates wherein they have Granted Letters of Adm^rcon or
Letters Testamentary not Exceeding fifty pounds Sterling and
to Transmitt the Same to the Comissary Generall for which
passing such Accounts the said Deputy Comissarys is to be
Allowed as a ffee the Sume of fifty pounds of Tobbacco and
noe more and if Such Deputy Comissary as aforesaid shall
Exact demand or receive of any person whatsoever more then
is by this Law for Executing such his office is allowed him he
shall lyable to such pains & penaltys as are Included in a Cer-
teine Act for Limitting Off^rs ffees within this Province but in
Case it shall so happen that any person or persons haveing
any Interrest or Claime in Such Estates shall make any objec-
tions to the Legality or Interrest of any Article or Articles
Conteined in the Said Accompts then the said Deputy Comis-
sarys are forthwith to Mark Such Articles and Transmitt the
Accompts with all Papers thereunto belonging unto the Com-
issary Generall before whom all parties Concerned are to
appear and defend their Interrest And be it Enacted by the

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Authority aforesaid that it shall be att the Election of Such
Widdows haveing Devises as aforesaid to take and receive
the Same in full Satisfaction of all Claims and Rights to both
reall and Personal Estate and be thereby barred for ever from
all Claimes to the same or to refuse such Legacys & devises
as aforesaid and take theire third Part of the Personall & Reall
Estate as Widdows whose husbands dye Intestate in this Pro-
vince and whereas Many Orphans have greatly Stiffened by

the second Marriage of Such Widdows who haveing their
Estates in Possession by Will or Right of Administration
either by the one or both of them the said Estates have been
Wasted and Imbezled and if the Woman dye the said hus-
band refuses to render an Account of Such Estate Alledging
that he is neither Executor nor Administrator of his wife nor
of her former husband whereas att Comon Law a Woman
Covert Executrix Can do no Act to Prejudice her husband all
such Acts dureing the Same being void without his Consent
he not preventing such Waste when in his Power ought to
Answer for the Same Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid by and with the advice and Consent aforesaid that