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DIRECTIONS for EXrs. and ADMrs.
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by the former, at the time when distribution
is to be maid, makes it necessary to explain
to them as well the words, as the intent
of the law, in that respect: act of assembly
1715 chap. 39. § 8. The words are these,
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" No negro or other slave shall be sold or
" disposed of, by any administrator, for payment
" of debts, or otherwise reserved for the
" administrator's own use, in satisfaction of
" any debts due to the said administrators;
" nor any execution served upon any negro, or
" other slaves, so long as there shall be any
" other goods of the deceased, sufficient to satisfy
" the just debts of the deceased."
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And § 16--" That all negroes and other
" slaves after the transmitting the estate to the
" county courts, as aforesaid, shall be appraised
" to the guardians or trustees, and preserved
" by them, and be employed to the said
" guardians or trustees use and benefit; and the
" like number of slaves, and of the like ability
" of body, be returned to the said orphans out
" of their increase, or otherwise, at their full
" age, by this law limitted."
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From which two paragraphs the intent of
the law may be plainly collected, and appears
to be this, that when it is found necessary to
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