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death of any such person, to certify the same and the amount thereof to the Registrar of the court for registration in the court, and to pay over to the Accountant General the balance of every such estate, after payment of all lawful claims against the same.
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(3) It shall be lawful for the Financial Secretary, in 2 of 1950, his discretion, on the application of the Commissioner of Police or the Commissioner of Prisons, as the case may be, to sign an order upon the Accountant General for the payment of the whole or any part of such balance to such person or persons as may appear to him to be entitled thereto, and the Accountant General shall comply with such order.
Estates of persons dying on voyages to the Colony.
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62. (1) The following special provisions shall regulate the administration of the estates of passengers who die at sea in the course of a voyage to the Colony on board of any vessel which afterwards arrives in the Colony-
(a) where any passenger has died on board any vessel in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of the vessel in which such passenger has died shall, immediately upon the arrival of the vessel in the Colony, hand over to the Director of Marine all the goods and effects of such passenger then on board of such vessel;
(b) thereupon the Director of Marine shall take possession of such goods and effects, and-
Adminis-tration of estate of dying on voyage to the Colony.
(i) if he thinks that their value is more than five hundred dollars he shall forthwith hand them 9 of 1950. over to the Official Administrator, to whom he Schedule. shall also furnish in writing all such information as he may have been able to obtain about the deceased passenger and as he may consider likely to be useful for the due administration of the estate; and
(ii) if he thinks that their value is not more than five hundred dollars, he shall, in such manner as he may consider just and convenient, distribute them amongst the persons who may appear to him, in his discretion, to be entitled thereto, or, if he
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death of any such person, to certify the same and the amount thereof to the Registrar of the court for registra- tion in the court, and to pay over to the Accountant Gen- eral the balance of every such estate, after payment of all lawful claims against the same.
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Schedule.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Financial Secretary, in 2 of 1950, his discretion, on the application of the Commissioner of Police or the Commissioner of Prisons, as the case may be, to sign an order upon the Accountant General for the payment of the whole or any part of such balance to such person or persons as may appear to him to be entitled thereto, and the Accountant General shall comply with such order.
Estates of persons dying on voyages to the Colony.
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62. (1) The following special provisions shall regulate the administration of the estates of passengers who die at sea in the course of a voyage to the Colony on board of any vessel which afterwards arrives in the Colony-
(a) where any passenger has died on board any vessel in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of the vessel in which such passenger has died shall, immediately upon the arrival of the vessel in the Colony, hand over to the Director of Marine all the goods and effects of such passenger then on board of such vessel;
(b) thereupon the Director of Marine shall take posses-
sion of such goods and effects, and-
tration of
Adminis- estate of dying on
passenger
voyage to the Colony.
(i) if he thinks that their value is more than five hundred dollars he shall forthwith hand them 9 of 1950. over to the Official Administrator, to whom he Schedule. shall also furnish in writing all such information as he
may have been able to obtain about the deceased passenger and as he may consider likely to be useful for the due administration of the estate; and
(ii) if he thinks that their value is not more than five hundred dollars, he shall, in such manner as he may consider just and convenient, distribute. them amongst the persons who may appear to him, in his discretion, to be entitled thereto, or, if he
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