Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1846-12-29


xy,RGlNIA.-Ata Circuit Superior Court of Law and
' Chancery, continued by adjournment, and holden
f. = the county of James City and the city OF Williams
burg at the Courthouse in the said city, on Monday
the sixteenth dny Of November, IN The year one thou
sand tigh, hundred and forty six:
Thomas Lawson, ria'"."
WIN. Howard, Sheriff of York county, and committee
and administrator Of the estate Of Daniel lawson de-
ceased, and Ann Lawson, widow Of the SAID l'ahel,
and William Henry, Jane, henrietta and Ann awsoh'
children uf The said Daniel, Deitnuahts'
rhe bill in this cause having hecn filed, and the sub
ppua executed on the defendants, WIN. Howard ana
Ann Lawson, the elder, more than Two months, ana
they still failing To appear and answer-on motion oil
the panl his bill is taken for confessed as against
said deir ndans-and, motion, Thomas o. Coehili Us
by the Court appointed guardian al llten 10 The infant
defendants William Henry, Jane, Henrietta and Ann
lawson To defend them In this suit; and he therenpon
d,ed their answer which the plaintiff instant-r re-
ned generally: And, theIeupon. this cause came on
his day 10 be heard on the bill (which Is taken for con
f..sed az 10 said VIM Howard and Ann Lawson, the
elder on the answers, rep!ications thereto, exhibits
lied and the arguments of Counsel; on consideration
hereof the Court doth adudge order and decree, that
il he referred Alexander T.. Garrett, who Is hereby a
pontcd Special Commissioner for the purpose, TO lake
~ orronnt of the personal estate of Daniel Lawson Inc
inesate in the peadings named come to the hands OF
The defendant. William Howard, his administrator, &c,
or 10 the hands Of any other person by nus oroe OF
hs noe And II is ordered that The said Conmissoner
a. m account Of The debts and funeral expenses oil
The said inesatr And II Is ordered that the saia Ioni
missioner do an advertisement 10 oe puonsneu m
Al. h, weeks in the Rchmnnd Enquirer, newspaper
nubli.bed in the city Of Richmond, Tor all persons VINO
NAV have claims against the said interstate TO come 10,
nrove and exhibit the came for settlement before Inc
said Comm ssioner, before the twenty-seventh
day of February thousand eight hundred aud forty
seven; and IN default of their coming In TO prove and
rrhib their claims for settlement by that Time, they
mr.. IN he the benefit Of this decree but the per
sons so coming in prove and exhibit their claims for
nt not parties this suit are before they are To
b. admitted creditors contribute 10 the plaintiff their
porjon Of the expenses Of this suit 10 he settled by the
said Commissioner Aud it is ordered That the said IN
trsate's personal estate he applied In payment OF his
debts and funeral expenses in due of acmins'ra
ton And for the better taking OF said accounts ana
discovery Of the matters aforesaid, the parties ARE 70
produce befnre the said Commissioner upon oath, all
naptrs and writings in their custody power relating
thereto and are he examined upon ncrrogalories as
the said Commissioner shall drect-who IN taxing the
said accounts is make unto the parties all just allow
ances and state, settle and adjust The same, and make
report thereof together wi any other matters specially
stated deemed pertinent by himself, which may be re-
uuired by any either Of the parties to be ST. stated to
the Court And the Court doth reserve the conscera-
tnn of all further directions, and OF the costs OF TINS
anti unit, after The said Commissioner shall have made
his report and any of the parties are to be at liberty 10
apply to the Court, as occasion shall require
'fr' A Copy Tes,e, TIL. o. COGBILL, &.