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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0392 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 357.J AN ACT
To provide for the sale of the insolvent and doubtful claims
belonging to the estate of Clark T. Barton, deceased.
SEC. 1. Be itenacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General, Assembly
convened, rhat the judge of the county court of the claims ofdecd
county of Franklin be and he is hereby empowered to au-maybe-old.
thorise the executors of the last will band testament of
Clark T. Barton, deceased, to sell at public auction such
claims, notes, accounts and other evidences of debt belong-
ing to said decedent's estate, as he shall by proof be satis-
fled will promote the interest of said estate and not inter-
fere with the rights of the creditors of the same.
SEC. 2. dnd be itfurther enacted, That whenever said Executors shall
detrn ac-
executors shall make the sale which may be authorised aot of s
under the provisions of this act, they shall return an ac-
count thereof to said judge, in the same manner and under
the same restrictions as are now prescribed by law for the
return of other accounts of sales.
APPROVED, 5 February, 1850.
[No. 358.] AN ACT
To authorise the orphans' court of Madison county to or-
der the sale or distribution of certain slaves.
Whereas Edward Collier, late of Abbeville district,
South Carolina, did by his last will bequeath certain slaves
to Mrs. Beatrix Herring, late of Morgan county, Alabama, Preamble.
for the term of her life, and after her death to the surviving
children of James Collier, deceased, late of Madison coun-
ty, in the last named state, and to the descendants of the
deceased children of said James: and whereas, the said
Beatrix hath recently died-'
SEC. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General
Assembly convened, That it shall be lawful for Charles
E. Collier, one of the surviving children of said James Col- of
lier, and the other survivors'and the descendants of the
deceased children who are of age, and the guardians of
such as are minors, to file an authenticated copy:of the
will of said Edward Collier'in the orphans* court of Madi-
son; and the judge of said court is hereby authorised to
order said slaves to be sold and the proceeds distributed
as in ordinary cases where the court has jurisdiction over
the estates of deceased.persons, or if the judge shall deem
1,649-530.
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