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tion of an estate, to examine such agent on oath, touching all pro-
ceedings which may have taken place relative to the administra-
tion of the estate in which such agent may have been employed,
in like manner as they are authorized to examine administrators.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec 8. 1820, ch. 174, sec. 7.

8. Every administrator may, within one year after the date of
his letters, return to the orphans' court a list of the debts due
from his decedent, which may be made known to him, stating the
principal and the time at which interest is to commence on each
respective debt—to which list of debts shall be annexed the oath
of the administrator that the same is a correct list of the debts
due from his decedent, so far as the said debts have come to his
knowledge; and every six months thereafter, until the estate may
be finally settled, a similar return may be made of such debts as
shall come to the knowledge of the administrator within that
period—which list of debts shall be recorded by the register of
wills, and a copy thereof certified under the hand of the register,
and the seal of his office, shall be prima facie evidence of the
amount of debts due by the decedent, in any court where the
administrator alleges that he has not assets sufficient to discharge
the claim in controversy, or any part thereof.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1820, ch. 174, sec. 8.

9. Such lists shall not afford any evidence of the justice or
correctness of any claim therein when controverted by the
administrator in any suit instituted for the recovery of such debt,
nor shall the same be construed to take any debt out of the
operation of any plea of limitation.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 10, sec. 11.

10. Whenever, under the provisions of a will, it shall be neces-
sary for an executor or an administrator cum testamento annexo
to retain in his hands the personal estate, or any part thereof, after
all just claims are discharged, as where money or some other
thing is directed to be paid at a distant period, or upon a contin-
gency, any court of equity in the city or county, or the orphans'
court shall have the power, on the application of such executor
or administrator, or of a party interested, to decree or give direc-