GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

133f.

the estate of the testator or intestate, or in and as part of

CHAP. 315.

the list of debts belonging to such estate, any property,

stocks, claims, or evidence of claims; and if said courts shaft

finally adjudge and decree in favour of the allegations of said

Proceedings direc-

petition or bill of complaint, in whole, or in part, the said

ted.

court shall order an additional inventory or list of debts, as

the case may be, to be returned by the executor or execu-

tors, administrator or administrators aforesaid; and an ap-

praisement to be made accordingly, to comprehend the pro-

perty, stocks, and claims, in respect of which the court shall

so adjudge and decree, in manner as is prescribed in refer-

ence to inventories and lists of debts of the estates of de-

ceased persons, and such additional inventory or list of debts,

shall have the same effect to all intents and purposes, as any

inventory or inventories, or list or lists of debts, of said es-

tate theretofore returned, and the said court may enforce

Authority to en-

such order in reference to the said additional inventory and

force.

lists of debts, by attachment and imprisonment, and seques-

tration of property of the executor or executors, or adminis-

trator or administrators, complained against by said peti-

tion, and decreed to be in default or liable, and if such exe-

cutor or executors, administrator or administrators, shall,

either before or after such process of attachment, imprison-

ment, and sequestration, fail to comply with such order, his

or their letters testamentary, or of administration, may be

revoked, and the court may direct to be put in suit the ad-

ministration or testamentary bond of such executor or exe-

B evoke letters.

cutors, administrator or administrators; and the said proper-

Suit &c.

ty, stocks and claims, and all liability of such executor or

executors, administrator or administrators, therefor ordered

to be comprised in such additional inventory or list of debts,

shall be decreed and taken to be within the condition of

such bond; Provided however, That in the cases provided for

Appeal provided.

in this and the preceding section, any party may appeal

from the decree of the orphan's court to the county court

of the county in which the orphan's court shall sit.

Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That a recess of any orphan's

Recess of court

court in this State, shall be deemed and taken to be not

consulted.

only such days as they may not hold a court, but also such

parts or portions of a day, as they may not be in actual ses-

sion; And be it further enacted, That all ths acts heretofore

done and performed by any of the registers of wills of the

several counties of this State, during the periods in which

such courts were not actually in session, shall be as valid

and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if such acts had

been done and performed during the recess of such courts,

any thing in any former laws contained to the contrary not-

withstanding.