334 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

C. P.

of by any Adminisf for payment of Debts or otherwise
reserved for the Adminisrs own Use in Satisfaction of any
Debts due to the said Adminisr nor any Execution Served
upon any Negroe or other Slave soe long as there shall be
other goods of the Deceased Sufficient to Satisfie the Just
Debts of the said Deced but shall be kept upon the hazard of
the Estate and Imployed for the benefitt of the Credittors and
Orphans (if any be) Untill the Cropp that was upon hand or
shall have been begun in the Life time of the Deced shall be
finished which shall always be Deemed to be by the Last day

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of January next after such Intestates Decease after which the
Adminisr is to Account for the Estate and such Cropp shall
be Assetts to the Credittors and Divideable between the wife
and Child or Children or Relations of the said Deceased if
there be no Credittors and the Judge for probatt of wills upon
passing the Account of such Administrator shall allow him
his reasonable Charges Expended in finishing such Cropp.
Secondly — that no Account be allowed for diet Cloaths or
physick to any Admr or Guardian to any Orphan Against the
Estate of the Intestate or against the shall portion of any
Child Committed to any Guardian or other psons 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 soe far forth as their Said Interest and Increase
will Extend Unto but if the Estate be so small that the Inter-
est or Increase thereof will not Extend to a ffree Education
and Maintainance of such orphans then such Orphans shall
be bound Apprentices to Mariners or some handicraft trade
or other person att the discretion of the County Courts untill
they Arrive to the age of Twenty one Years Except some
Kinsman or relation or some other Charitable person will

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Maintaine and Educate them for the Increase of the small
Estate they have without and Diminution of the principall
which shall always be delivered to the Orphans at the years
hereafter in this Act Limitted and Appointed then such Kins-
man relation or other Charitable person is thereby Obliged
to performe what is by this Law before Injoyned and to be
Ascertained by the County Courts.

Provided always that where any person being a protestant
that shall dye and Leave a widow and Children and such
widow shall Intermarry wth any person of the Romish
Comunion or be herselfe of that Opinion and profession itt
shall and may be Lawfull for his Majesties Governr and Coun-
cill within this province upon Application to them made to
remove such Child or Children out of the Custody of such
parents and place them where they may be Securely Educated