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Ordinance relating to cases of Escheat pased by the Legislative of Prinidad.
Waving consulted with the
Morney General, I anx
that no further legislation
of opinion
the
subject is necesary in this Colony, - the provisions of two local Ordinances bring quite sufficient for the purposed
Under Ordinance Mob of 1854 The unclaimed Balances of Intestate
Estates
are
aflow bepears, tranfired
to the Public Funds, and become
available for the general purposes of the Colony. But, prior to this, at the expiration of the fifth year of
such monies
novico remaining
remaining unclaimed, Advertisements have to be published
beck here and in the Mecher-Comitry
of the Deceased to the effect that the balance of the Estate will, mules claimed, be confiscated for Colonial Purposes.
In 1857, however, a function Ordinance, M. 1 of that year,
passed, by which powers were
on the
-good
was
conferred
aut
Governor to make of the General Reomme of the Colony clarins preferred and firoved any time after the confiscation referred to above had been carried into effect, and yet, furcher, any -cesful Clarinant is at liberty to petition the Supreme Court in Equity, rohence
be issued
any
order
may