Act of assembly
1715, ch.
39.  Direction
to the commissary-general
for the appointment
of 
deputy 
commisssaries.

    By the act of assembly of this province, " For
" the better administration of justice in testamentary
" affairs, &c."  1715, cap. 39, § 29,
it is enacted, " that the commissary-general of
" this province, or other person or persons that
" shall from time to time be appointed as judge
" or judges in testamentary causes for granting
" administrations, shall, from time to time,
" and at all times during his or their continuance
" in such offence, constitute, ordain and
" appoint, some able and sufficient person, of
" good repute, and a freeholder, in every respective
" county within this province, to take
" the probate of any last will and testament,
" of any persons either nuncupative, or
" in writing, even though the same be concerning
" titles of land; and likewise to grant
" administration of the goods and chattels of
" persons dying intestate, in the respective
" county or counties where each person or persons
" so appointed shall reside and inhabit;
" which said person in each respective county
" of this province so appointed as aforesaid, shall
" and may take the proof of any will whatsoever,
" as aforesaid, of any person as aforesaid, within
" the county as aforesaid, and grant letters testamentary
" upon the same, and likewise grant
" administration to any person or persons whatsoever,
" that right has to the administration of