ADMINISTRATORS

    Directions in cases where the registers had been appointed
auditors to ascertain the sum for which judgments
should be entered under the act of 1798, ch. 101,
    Administrators may be called on to give counter security;
on refusal or neglect, their letters to be revoked,
and a delivery over of the property compelled,
    Administrator authorised to sign their assent to the
release of insolvent debtors,
    Receipts, final discharges, &c. to administrators, if
acknowledged before any justice or register of wills,
may be recorded by the registers,
— A copy under seal to be admitted as evidence,
— Such receipts, &c. given by non-residents and
acknowledged with a certificate thereof, and seal of
office, to be recorded, and a copy admitted as evidence
in the same manner,
    If two or more persons are jointly bound, and one or
more of them die, his or their representatives may be
charged as if the obligors had been bound severally,
    Administrator of a defendant if residing in a different
county, how to be made a party,
    Administrator of sheriffs, coroners, &c. dying with
out making sale of property taken in execution, to receive
only half the poundage fees,
— In case of such death before the return day to receive 
no poundage fees,
    Administrators under letters granted in the District
of Columbia, enabled to maintain any suit in this state,
as if granted therein,
    Administrators of justices of the peace to deliver within
one month, their dockets, judicial papers, &c. to the
county clerk,
    Proceedings authorised by administrators in suits not
abating by the death of a party,
— Where the administrator of such party resides out
of the state,
    On the death of an administrator before an account is
settled with the orphans court, the administrator of the
 one dying, to render such account shewing the assets
received and payments made; to be examined, &c. by
the court,
    A joint administrator likely to suffer may complain to
the orphans court, who may revoke the powers of the
administrator, &c. complained of, and enforce the delivery
of the assets, books, &c. to the other administrator;
— Such remaining administrator to have his action
also,
    Administrators of deceased clerks or registers, to
cause the former judgments, decrees, &c. to be recorded,
    On revocation of letters, a delivery or payment of assets
to be enforced by attachment, sequestration, or
imprisonment,
    Administrators of sheriffs who have given bond empowered
to complete the collection of officers fees,
    Money received by administrators, &c. for interest
on sales by order of the Orphans Courts, to be considered
as assets, and accounted for,
— Money received by them for the hire or use of
servants or slaves, belonging to the estate, when lawfully
in their possession, to be considered as assets, &c.
— Allowance to be made for maintaining such slaves,
— Not to affect administrators, &c. who may have
settled their administration before the passage of this
act,
    Any person interested in the estate of a security of
an administrator, &c. may call on them for counter
security, as the security can, and the same proceedings
to be had,

  1804        78

  1807      136    3

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  1809      168    1
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  1811      161    1

  1812      145    4

  1813      102    5

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  1814        62    1

  1815      149    3

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  1816      203    3
 

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  1818      217    1
 

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