1822 - Edocs

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of the next succeeding term of said court, at the court
house door, after the said administration, having adver-
tised the same in some public newspaper, printed in this
territory, and continued in such paper at least three
weeks, next preceding the day of sale.
And upon the sale of such estate as aforesaid, it shall
be the duty of such administrator to give a credit to the
purchaser of said estate, who shall be the highest bidder,
for one year, upon such purchaser giving bond with secu-
rity, to be approved by the executor or administrator for
the payment of the purchase money. And it shall be the
duty of such administrator, upon the sale of such estate,
to execute to the purchaser thereof, a deed in fee simple,
conveying all the rig-ht, title and interest that said intes-
tate had in and to said estate : which deed shall be acknowledged
before the circuit court of the county, where
the estate shall lie. And it shall be the further duty of
such administrator to pay over unto the territorial treasury,
all the proceeds by him made and received by the
sale of such estate, in the same manner as is directed in
the forty seven) h section of this act, retaining for his
trouble, ten per centum upon the whole proceeds of such
^ale, together with all necessary disbursements by him
actually made in and about settling such estate : provid-
ed, that no executor or administrator shall either directly
or indirectly become the purchaser of the whole or
any part of the land sold by virtue of this section ; and
that when he makes the deed for said land so sold, he
shall make an oath that he is neither directly or indirectly
interested in the purchase of said lands, or tenements,
or any part thereof, nor has the same been purchased for
his benefit or use.
49. Be it further enacted, That, if no heir or legal representative
of any intestate within the meaning of this
act, shall appear and prove his right to such intestates es-
tate, after the money aforesaid is paid into the territorial
treasury, within ten years, such heir or legal representative
shall be barred from having or receiving any part of
such intestates estate, real or personal, or the proceeds
thereof: saving however the rights of infants, married
women, persons of unsound mind, and persons not within
the limits of the United States; or their territories, who
shall respectively have the aforesaidHen years, after their
respective disabilities are removed, or his or their return
to the limits of the United States, or their territories to
prove their respective claims aforesaid. But if any heir
or legal representative shall appear within the time limited
by this section,, and produce legal proof of his, her
or their right to claim such estate, the court shall cause
the money paid into the treasury, as .foresaid, to be
forthwith' paid unto/him, her or them, out of the territorial
treasury
Term* of sale.
Proceeds paid intr*
the Territorial
treasury.
Proviso.
Heirs barred afit.
ten vears.
Saving-,
Leg-al representa
tive appealing- in,
proper time.