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the proper Use and Benefit of them or either of them: Any Law,
Statute, Usage, or Custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.
And whereas, by the Laws of England, the Age is not allowed
to any but the Heir at Law; and it appears to this General Assembly,
that Children, other than the Heir at Law, are within the same
Reason; and the allowing thereof here, will be advantageous to
Minors,
Be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Persons under
the Age of Twenty One Years, who shall hereafter be entitled to
any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, by Purchase, shall not
be obliged, during their Minority, to answer any Suit or Ejectment
in Relation to the said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, any
more, or otherwise than they would be, if such Lands, Tenements,
or Hereditaments, became their Right by Descent.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That
every Administrator obliged by the Act, Intituled, An Act for the
Application of such Intestates Estates as leave no legal Represen-
tatives, &c. to pay the Ballance of the Estate to one of the publick
Treasurers, shall hereafter be obliged to pay and satisfy the Ballance
of such Estate, to the Visitors of the publick School of the County,
where the Deceas'd resided, in the same Manner as such Adminis-
trator should have been obliged by Law to pay the same to any
legal Representative. In Case any such should have appeared to
be apply'd to the Use of such School, save that by the Acts now in
Force, sundry Particulars of the Goods and Chattels are directed to
be paid in Specie, according to Appraisement, to the legal Repre-
sentatives; In this Case, such Administrator shall pay the said Bal-
lance of such Estate in Current Money, or in Specie, at the Direction
of the Visitors: For the Payment whereof, if in Current Money, he
shall be allowed Ten per Cent, if in Specie, Five per Cent, and no
more.
Provided, That in Case such Administrator be of Kin to the De-
ceas'd, within the Fifth Degree of either Consanguinity or Affinity,
then such Administrator, and all others, that are as nearly related
to the Deceas'd, as such Administrator, shall have as good a Right
to such Residue, as if he or they were Brothers or Sisters Children
to the Deceas'd: And such Ballance shall be distributed accord-
ingly.
Provided nevertheless, That in Case there be a Widow, no Col-
laterals shall be admitted, other than these directed by this Act; but
such Widow shall have the whole Residue of such Estate: Any
Thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof, notwith-
standing.
Provided nevertheless, and be it Enacted, by the Authority, Ad-
vice, and Consent aforesaid That in Case such Residue shall hap-
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