228 TREASURER. [ART. 94.

SALES.

1868, c. 336 repeals 1865, c. 162, s. 4, [Sup. 303,] and enacts the following as a sub-
stitute therefor:

1883, c. 336. Trustee. Sale and ratifi- cation, &c. Proviso.

284. The orphans' courts shall have the autho- rity to appoint a trustee to make such sales, which trustee may be the administrator or any other person, in the discretion of the court, and who shall give bond with security, to be approved by the orphan's court or the register of wills, and proceed with such sale in the manner usually practiced in the courts of equity in this state; and upon the ratification of such sale by the orphans' court and the payment in full of the purchase money, and not before, the said trustee shall proceed to convey the title of said intestate to said real estate in the same manner as trustees under the appointment of circuit courts are now authorized to do, and the said orphans' court may allow the same commissions to any trustee so appointed as are now allowed to a trustee appointed to sell under a decree in equity; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any cases now pending in said courts. In force and approved March 30, 1868.

ARTICLE XCIV.

Treasurer.

1868, c. 155, entitled, an act to repeal a part of the first section of an act entitled
an act to carry into effect the eighth section of the act. entitled an act for the promo-
tion of internal improvements, passed at December session, 1835, c. 395, passed as
January session, 1860. c. 303, repeals so much of the first section of 1860, c. 303, at
provides that the treasurer shall not pay more than one-fourth of the whole amount
of money applied under that act, in any one year.

Approved March 20, 1868.
See 1868, c. 296, under Public Local Laws, Art. XXIII, Worcester county.