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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0528 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 500.] AN ACT
To authorize William 0. Davis, administrator of the estate
of Thomas C. Davis, deceased, to sell certain lands
therein named.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent.
atives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly, convened,
-*ofprobate.That it shall be lawful for the judge of probate of the
county of St. Clair, to take full jurisdicion of all the real
estate of Thomas 0. Davis, deceased, late of the county of
St. Clair. *
Administrator. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That said judge of probate is
hereby authorized, to grant an order of sale of said real
estate to William 0. Davis, administrator of said estate,
requiring him to sell the same on such credit and either at
public or private sale, at such time and place in the county
of Shelby or St. Clair, as shall upon proof be deemed most
beneficial for all parties interested in said estate.
SEC. 3. Be it Jurther enacted, That all the provisions of
chapter eight of the Code of Alabama, upon the subject of
the sale of lands for distribution, shall be complied with by
said administrator and administratrix,except as hereinbefore
provided.
APPROVED, February 21, 1860.
No. 501.] AN ACT
To authorize Robert Dougherty, Trustee to sell a portion
of the trust estate, and to invest the funds of such sale.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senote and House of Represent-
atives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
Trustee. That Robert Dougherty, of the county of Macon, the trus-
tee of Mrs. Mary Ann M. Cocke, be, and he is hereby
authorized to sell either at publio or at private sale, as he
may deem most beneficial to all the parties interested, a
part of the slaves, constituting the sole and separate estate
for life of his said cestui gue trust, and held subject to the
trusts and limitaLions of the last will and t:stament of her
deceased father, John Howard, and to execute to the pur-
Bils of Bale, chasers thereof, bills of sale, which bills of sale shall be
good and valid in law and in equity to vest in said pur-
chasers the entire and absolute title to the slaves so sold :
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