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XVIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Court to grant Let-
ters of Administration
Supreme Court shall grant and commit Letters of Administration to to Next of Kin or to
any one or more of the lawful Next of Kin of Persons so dying as the Registrar.
aforesaid, being then resident within the Jurisdiction of the said
1 Court, and being of the Age of Twenty-one Years ; and in case no
such Person shall then be residing within the Jurisdiction of the said
Court, or, being duly cited, shall not appear and pray the same, to
the Registrar of the said Court, or to such Person or Persons, whether
Creditor or Creditors, or not, of the deceased Person, as the Court
shall see fit : Provided always, that Probates of Wills, and Letters of
Administration to be granted by the said Court, shall be limited to
such Money, Goods, Chattels, Credits, and Effects as the deceased
Person at the Time of his or her Death shall have been entitled to
within the said Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.
XIX. And be it further enacted and ordained, That every Person Administrator to
to whom Letters of Administration shall be committed shall, before enter into Bond.
the granting thereof, give sufficient Security, by Bond to be entered
into to Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, for the Payment of
a certain Sum of Money with One, Two, or more Sureties, respect
being had to the Value of the Estates, Credits, and Effects of the
Deceased ; which Bond shall be deposited in the said Court among
the Records thereof, and there safely kept, and a Copy thereof shall
be also recorded among the Proceedings of the said Court ; and the
Condition of the said Bond shall be to the following Effect, " that if Condition of Bond.
"the above bounden Administrator of the Goods, Chattels, and Effects
" of the Deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect
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Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Credits, and Effects of the
" said Deceased, which have or shall come to the Hands, Possession ,
" or Knowledge of him the said Administrator, or to the Hands or
" Possession of any other Person or Persons for him, and the same
" so made do exhibit into the Supreme Court of Hongkong, at or
" before a Day therein to be specified ; and the same Goods, Chattels,
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Credits and Effects, and all other the Goods, Chattels, Credits, and
" Effects of the Deceased at the Time of his Death, or which at any
"time afterwards shall come to the Hands or Possession of such
" Administrator, or to the Hands or Possession of any other Person
" or Persons for him, shall well and truly administer according to
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Law ; and further shall make, or cause to be made, a true and just
"Account of his said Administration, at or before a Time therein to
" be specified, and afterwards from Time to Time as he, she, or they
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shall be lawfully required ; and all the Rest and Residue of the said
"Goods, Chattels, Credits, and Effect which shall be found from Time
"to Time remaining upon the said Administration Account, the same
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being first examined and allowed by the said Court, shall and do
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Manner as the said Court shall direct, - then this Obligation to be
"Void and of none Effect, or else to be and remain in full Force and
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Virtue." And in case it shall be necessary to put the said Bond . How Bond to be put
in Suit, for the sake of obtaining the Effect thereof for the Benefit ofin Suit.
such Person or Persons as shall appear to the said Court to be
interested therein, such Person or Persons from Time to Time giving
satisfactory Security for Paying all such Costs as shall arise from
the said Suit, such Person or Persons shall, by Order of the said
Court, be allowed to sue the same in the Name of the Attorney-
Generál