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An Act to amend the 2d section of an act. 1851-1852 259 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0163 and id is 1 raw text is: 259 CHAPTER CLXXIX. AN ACT to amend the 2d section of an act passed the 28th January, 1850, chap. 20, on appeals. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the 2d section of an act, passed the 28th of January, 1850, chap. 20, he so amended, that if any county court in this State, shall refuse to allow the owner or owners of any runaway slave or slaves, which may have been sold under the provisions of the act of 1825, chap. 70, the proceeds of such sale, after the payment of all jail fees and other necessary ex- penses of such sale, when application shall have been made as provided by the section of the act which this is intended to amend, in that case, the party aggrieved by such refusal of the county court, may have his or her appeal to the next term of the circuit court, which may be held for the county in which said application was refused; which appeal shall be heard and deter- mined by said circuit court in the same manner and under the same restrictions which govern appeals from the judgments of justices of the peace. JORDAN STOKES, Speaker of 1/ic House of Representatives. Ml. R. HILL, Passed, February 25, 1852. Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER CLXXX. AN A' T to repenl so much of the act of 172:1, chap. 10, sec.'!, as requires in'ven torius ind account of sales of estates of deceased persons to lie sworn to in opien court, and for other pirposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That so much of the act of 1723, chap. 10, sec. 2, as requires the inventories and accounts of sales of deceased person's estates, returned by executors and administrators, to be sworn to in open court, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that hereafter it shall be lawful for all such inventories and accounts of sales to be returned and sworn to before the clerks of the county courts, either in vacation or term time, and it shall be the duty of said clerks to pre- sent such inventories and accounts of sales to the coun- Digitized from Best Copy Available

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