DIRECTIONS for EXrs. and ADMrs.
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towards finishing the crop, during the time the
same is on hand, specifying the quantities of each
product, with the length of time they were employed
in it. The same account should also
contain their real disbursements, for maintaining,
and cloathing the servants and negroes, if
any there be; also when the deceased leaves a
number of small children to be maintained,
until such time as a division can be made, the
executor or administrator may, in case all provisions
in the house were appraised, and returned
in the inventory (which ought, always to
be done) likewise make a charge for such expences,
in that particular; but this allowance
is not to be claimed, under any other circumstance;
the words of the law being very explicit,
viz. " that no account be allowed to any administrator,
" for diet, cloaths, or physick, against
" the estate of the intestate;" such an account being
produced to the commissary, he will be
enabled to form a judgment of the legality of
the several claims, and will allow, or reject
them accordingly, either in part, or in the
whole.
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What is to be
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