The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-04-14
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To amend the act entitled can act to pro-
vide for the settlement Of the estates
of deceased PERSONS" passed March
Esd, 1870,
SEc I. BE it enacted BY the General
Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That if
the executor or administrator doubt the
justice Of any claim, presented or verified
as provided for by section ~eighty-fve, of
an act 10 provide for the settlement Of
the estate OF deceased persons" passed
March 23l, 1910, he may enter into an
agreement m wrhing, with the claimant
TO refer the matter in controversy to three
disintersted persons, who, If the claim
does rot exceed one hundred dollars,
shall be approved Of by a justice of the
peace Of the county in which the parties
OF either of them reside; or if the claim
exceeds n hundred dollars, the referees
shall be approved Of by the probate judge
of such county.
Sac. 2 That the eishty-sixth section
of "an act to provide for the settlement
OF the estates ofdeceased persons; passed
March Esd, $780," which reads as fol-
lows; "If the executor or administrator
doubt the Justice Of any claim presented
or verified, he may enter'into an agree
ment, in writing, with the claimant, to
refer the matter in controversy to three
disinterested persons, who, if the claim
does not exceed one hundred dollars, be
approved of by a justice of the peace of
the county in which the parties, Oreither
of them, reside, or if the claim exceed
one hundred dollars, the referees shall
be approved Of by one of the associate
judges Of the court of common pleas of
such county," be and the same is hereby
repealed.
JAMES G. JOHNSON,
Speaker Of the House of Representative.
WILLIAM MEDILL,
President of the Senate,
March 10, 1859.
mo. 35.
AN ACT
TO extend the time in which administra-
tion may be granted in certain cases;
and to repeal the Goth section of the
act to provide for the settlement of
the estates Of deceased persons, pass
cd March Esd, 1850.
SEC. /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That ad-
ADMINISTRATION shall not be originally gran
ted as of right, after the expiration of
twenty years from the death Of the tes-
tator or intestate; Provided, nevertheless,
that each Probate Judge shall have pow
er, with in his county to grant letters of
original administration upon the estate of
any person heretofore deceased, or who
may hereafter d~ecease, as well after as
before the expiration of the said period
oftwenty years, upon petition of the next
of kin, or other person or persons inter
ested, or their agent, and on good cause
shown for granting such letters as aforc
said; and the said Judge may, before al
lowing the prayer of any such petition,
direct notice thereof to be given by pub.
location, for u period not exceeding thir-
ty days, in n ormore of the newspapers
printed inithe county where such petition
IS filed.
SEC. 2. That the twentieth section of
The act to provide for the settlement of
the estates of deceased persons, passed
the twenty-third day of March, in the
year eighteen hundred and forty, be and
the anne is hereby repealed.
JAMES G. JOHNSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
trtt WILLIAM MEDILL,
President of the Senate.
March "a, 1852.
SECRETARY or SrArE's OFFICE,