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An Act to allow widows of such persons as may die intestate in this State, in taking their proportionate part of the negro property, to choose and select the same, provided the same can be done without exceeding in amount their distribution shares. 1853-1854 71 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0394 and id is 1 raw text is: PUBLIC LAWS.-JuDmoARY-TRBTEES AND WIoWs. 71 Trustoe-Vidows' Privilege. atnplicable to the estates of all Trustees in this State who may have converted to their own use, wasted, destroyed, or died chargeablelun) to the estates of their estui Que Trust ; Provided, Said Trustees possession, have had the actual possession, control and management of the pro- perty vested in them as such. 2. Smjc. 2. And be it farther enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.* Approved, February 10th, 1854. * RE. NoT.-Th1e old Act, embraced only executors, administrators and guardians, and subjected their estates first to pay debts due in a fiducinry enpneity, Cobb 288, Pri. 2:1:3. Silp. Ct. Decis.-A iinor, with a separate estate is an Orphan in this sense, thlough his parents live. 10 Geo. 65. WARRANTY See Sales. WID OWS.* Sue. 1. Widows allowed to select their share of negroes. (No. 01.) A n Act to allow widows of such per-sons a8 may (lie intestate in this State, in taki?,-, their proportionate part of the neyro pro- perty, to choose and select the sane, provided the same can he done without exceeding in amount their distribution shares. 1. Stanos 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the State of Georgia iin General Assembly met, and ittatesand is hereby enacted by the auiority of the same, That from and wiows. after the passage of this Act, that (?) the widows of such persons1Vidows may a may die intestate iii this State to (?) be allowed on the distribu- seect their . share of the tion of the estates (estate ?) of sitch intestate (intestates?) to choose negroes, &e. and select their respective proportions of the negroes; Provided, The same can be done without exceeding their distributive shares. 2. Sie. II. An(be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be and the same are hereby re- pealed.* Approved, February 18th, 1854. *ReV. Non.-The old plan was this: three or mnore frecholders divided into parcels, and distributed by lot. Cobb, 202. See No. 30.-Widows now let into the Ilotchpot, and references in note to No. o. *See also Distribution of Estates, See. 1, 2, their interest in Ilotchpot.

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