236 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

such orphan shall be called to Court and shall then and there
Choose his Guardian into whose hands the said orphans Estate
shall be comitted but if such orphan be not at age then the
Justices aforesaid shall put the persons Lands goods and
Chattells of the said Orphan into the hands of such person or
persons as they shall think fitt and take a bond with two
sufficient Suretys in the names of the Orphans themselves for
the securing and delivering of the said Estate to said Orphans
or their guardians when thereunto lawfully called according to
the rules and directions hereafter by this Act prescribed and
not otherwise Which rules shall be rules not only for the
Justices of the County Courts to proceed by in taking the Ac-
counts of Guardians or Trustees for Orphans but also for the
Judge for Probatt of Wills and granting Administrations in
the Account of Administrators and bare executors to the
benefitt of others nor shall the Judge give any other allowances
to any Administrator or Administrators upon his or their Ac-
counts but for debts bona fide owing from the deceased and
really paid or secured to be paid by the severall and respective
Administrators.
I^st No Negro or other Slave shall be sold or disposed of by
any Administrator for payment of Debts or otherwise reserved
for the Administrators own use in Satisfaction of any debts due
to the said Administrator nor any Execution Served upon any
Negroes or other Slaves so long as there shall be other goods
of the deceased Sufficient to Satisfy the Just Debts of the de-
ceased but shall be kept upon the hazard of the Estate and
imploy'd for the benefitt of the Creditors and Orphans (if any
be) during the first year at the end of which the Administrator
is to account for the Estate and the profitts of such slaves shall
be assetts to the Creditors and dividable between the wife and
Children or relations of the said deceased if there be no
Creditors And the Judge for probatt of wills upon passing

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the Account by such Administrator shall allow him his reason-
able Charges.
2^d That no account be allowed for diett Cloths physick or
Education to any Administrator or guardian to any orphan
against the Estate of the Intestate or against the filial part of
any Child comitted to any Guardian or other persons intrusted
by the County Court but the said Orphan shall be maintained
and educated by the interest of their estate and the increase of
their stocks so farr forth as their said Interest and increase will
extend but if the Estate be so small as that it will not extend
to a free education of such orphans then such orphans shall be
bound apprentices to some handy craft trade or other person
at the discretion of the County Courts untill they arrive to the
age of twenty one years except some Kinsman or relation or