THOMAS VS. WOOD. 303

de bonis non, upon his estate, and passed an account in the
Orphans Court in October, 1849.

Among theexceptions to the Auditor's report are the follow-
ing: 1st. "Because the Auditor has charged the administra-
tors, d. b. n., of Joseph G. Harrison, in these accounts with
various sums of money and property which were more properly
chargeable to John Wood, the executor of Joseph G. Harrison;

and because he has stated no account showing the liability of
the administrators, d. b. n., and estate of said Wood separately,
as should be done."

2d. "Because in account B. large sums of money are charg-
ed for the hire of negroes, on the supposition that the same
were received, whereas it does appear by the administration
accounts, and by them alone, the only proof of such receipts,
that other, less and fewer sums was received, and these not by
the persons charged therewith."

3d. "Because in account B. these exceptants are charged
with higher rent, and more in amount than was received by
John Wood—but that no part thereof should be charged against
them."

4th. "Because the value of the services of the said negroes,
as charged in account B., for three years after the testator's
death, belong, under his will, to the exceptant, Matilda B. Har-
rison."

11th. "Because, in said accounts, or some of them, the Aud-
itor should have assigned to Mrs. Matilda B. Harrison, the
widow, so much of the persona] or real estate as would com-
pensate her, for the loss she has sustained in the seventy acres
of land devised to her by her husband, and afterwards given up
to Dr. Johns."

Upon these exceptions the Chancellor said :]

The accounts settled by Wood, as the executor of Joseph G.
Harrison, furnish to a considerable extent, the basis of the ac-
counts of the Auditor, though they have been modified by cer-
tain depositions, and other evidence introduced in the cause by
the counsel for the administrators de bonis non. No account