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Rules
concerning
inventories.
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SEC. 11. In case an inventory be returned by a collector,
duly appointed, the executor, executrix or executors, or admi-
nistrator, administratrix or administrators, thereafter adminis-
tering, shall, within three calendar months after the date of his,
her or their letters, either return a new inventory, in place of
the collector's inventory, or any acknowledgment in writing,
that he, she or they, have received from the collector the arti-
cles contained in the first inventory, or consent to be answer-
able for the same, in the same manner as if the said inventory
had been made out after his, her or their administering upon
the estate; provided that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to render any executor, executrix or executors,
administrator, administratrix or administrators, answerable for
not making a return of the inventory aforesaid, wherein it shall
appear to the court that he, she or they, have been prevented
from making such return by the improper detention of the
goods of the deceased by the collector aforesaid.
SEC. 12. The executor or administrator shall either finish
the crop on hand at the death of the deceased, or sell the same,
as he shall judge the most convenient ; and in case he shall not
deem it convenient to finish the crop, the person entitled to the
land on the death of the testator or intestate, or his or her guar-
dian or next friend for him or her, in case of infancy of the
party, may take the said crop at the appraisement of the apprai-
sers as aforesaid, paying ready money, or giving bond, with
good security, approved by the orphans court, or the register of
wills of the said court, if the said court be not in session at the
time of making such sale, for paying the money within six
months ; and in case the said party, or his or her guardian for
him or her, shall not take the crop at an appraisement, the exe-
cutor or administrator may sell the same to any other person,
for ready money, or on credit as aforesaid ; provided neverthe-
less, that he shall not sell it at less than the appraisement,
without the approbation of the orphans court granting the
administration, or an order, prescribing the terms, by the said
court, passed as aforesaid.
SEC. 13. If an executor or administrator shall not, within
three months after the date of his letters, exhibit to the orphans
court an inventory as aforesaid, a summons, returnable within
not less than eight, or more than thirty days, may, ex officio, or
on application of a person interested, be issued against such exe-
cutor or administrator, to shew cause wherefore such inventory
hath not been exhibited ; and if the summons be duly returned
'summoned,' or upon two citations returned <non est,' by the
sheriff of the county wherein the party resided at the time of
obtaining his letters, or of the county wherein the letters were
obtained, in case the party doth not reside in the state, and if
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