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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1845. 125


Supreme 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 General for the time being of the said Colony, and the said bond shall not be
sued in any other manner. [ Repealed by Ordinances No. 5 of 1858 and No. 8 of 1860. ]

20. And be it further enacted and ordained , that the said Supreme Court shall Court to fix
periods at which
fix certain periods when all persons to whom probates of wills and letters of administra accounts shall
be passed.
tion shall be granted by the said Court shall from time to time, until the effects of the
deceased persons shall be fully administered , pass their accounts relating thereto before
the said Court ; and in case the effects of the deceased shall not be fully administered
within the time for that purpose to be fixed by the said Court, then, or at any earlier
time, if the said Court shall see fit so to direct, the person or persons to whom such
probate or administration shall be granted shall pay, deposit, and dispose of the balance
of money belonging to the estate of the deceased then in his, her , or their hands , and
all money which shall afterwards come into his , her, or their hands , and also all precious
stones, jewels, bonds, bills, and securities belonging to the estate of the deceased, in
such manner, and unto such persons, as the said Court shall direct for safe custody ;
and the said Court shall from time to time make such order as shall be just for the due
administration of such assets, and for the payment or remittance thereof, or any part
thereof, as occasion shall require, to or for the use of any person or persons, whether
resident or non-resident in the said Colony and its dependencies, who may be entitled
thereto, or any part thereof, as creditors , legatees, or next of kin, or by any other right
or title whatsoever. [ Repealed by Ordinances No. 5 of 1858 and No. 8 of 1860. ]

21. And be it further enacted and ordained , that it shall and may be lawful for Allowances to be
made to execu
the said Supreme Court, to allow to any executor or administrator of the effects of any tors or adminis
trators.
deceased person (except as herein mentioned) such commission or percentage out of
their assets as shall be just and reasonable for their pains and trouble therein : Provided
always, that no allowance whatever shall be made for the pains and trouble of any
executor or administrator who shall neglect to pass his accounts at such time, or to
dispose of any money, goods, chattels or securities with which he shall be chargeable in
such manner, as in pursuance of any general or special rule or order of the said Court,
shall be requisite ; and moreover every such executor or administrator so neglecting to
pass his accounts, or to dispose of any such money, goods , chattels, or securities, with
which he shall be chargeable, shall be charged with interest at the rate then current within
the said Colony and its dependencies, for such sum and sums of money, as from time
to time shall have been in his hands , whether he shall or shall not make interest thereof.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1860. ]

22. And be it further enacted and ordained : that where letters of administration, Payment of
moneyinto
or "ad colligenda bona " have been granted to the Registrar under an Act of Parliament Treasury.
passed at a session holden in the 39th and 40th years of the reign of King George the
Third, intituled An Act for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c.
79. s. 21.
British Territories in India, and the better administration of Justice within the same, or