Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-31
ROBERT KIRK,
1reSldent OF the Genate.
Passed March 20, 1861.
IN ACT

ENo. al AN ACT
10 amend section 43 of an act eutitled
on act 10 provide for the settlement
Of estates of deceased persons, passed
March %, 1910.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted By the Gen.
eral assembly of the State Of Ohio, Thai
section forty three of the above recited
act be amended go as to read as follows
SECTION 43. When any man shall die
leaving widew, or minor child, under
the age of fifteen years, the following
property shall not be deemed assets OF
administered as such, but shall be inclu-
ded and stated in the inventory of the
estate and signed by the appraisers with
outappraising the same:
First--all spinning wheels, weaving
looms and stoves put up AID kept in use
by the family.
Secondly-the family bible, family
pictures and school books used by or in
the family of the deceased, and books
not exceeding one hundred dollars in
value which were kept and used as part
of the family library before the decease
Of such person.
Thirdly one COW, or if there be ne
cow, household goods to be selected by
the widow, not exceeding twenty five
dollars in value; all sheep to the number
of twelve, and the wool shorn from them,
and the yarn and cloth manufactured by
the family, and all the fax in possession
of the family, and yarn or thread and
cloth manufactured therefrom.
Fourthly-all the wsaring apparel and
ornaments of the family and Of the de-
ceased; all the beds, bcdsteaas and bed
ding, and cooking utensils, being neces-
sary for the use Of the family, and any
other articles of personal property, not
exceeding one hundred dollars in value,
which the widow may select, to be val
ued by the appraisers.
SEC g. That the forty third section
of the act to which this is an amend
nent, be and the same is hereby re,
pealcd:
Sec. g. This act to take effect from
and after its passage.
ED. A. PARROTT,
Speaker pro tenn. of the House of Rep
reSentatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President Of the Senate,
Passed March II, 1861.
mo. AL AN ACT
TO relieve sureties of executors and ad
ministraters.
SECTION !. Be 1t enacted By the Gen
craI Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
it shall be lawful for any surety Of an
executor or administrator of any de-
ceased person, or the executor or admin
istrator of any such surety, at any time,
to make complaint to the proper probate
court to be released from the bond with
such executor or administrator, by filing
his request therefor with the judge Of
said court, and giving at least five days
notice, in writing, to such executor or
administrator, when such court is of
opinion there is good reason therefor,
shall release such surety, and if such
executor or administrator fail to give
new bonds, as by such court directed, he
shall be removed and his letters super
seded; but such original surety shall not
be released until such executor Or ad
ministrator SO gives bond, and such orig
inal surety shall be liable only for the
acts of such executor or administrator
from the time of the execution Of the
original bond to the filing Of the second
bond: Prorided, that the cost of such
release shall be paid by the surety ap-
plying to be released, unless it shall ap-
pear to the court that the administrator
or executor is insolvent, incompetent, OF
is wasting the assets of the estate.
SEC. 2. An act entitled ''an act to re-
lieve the sureties of executors or admin
istrators," passed April 6, 1859, be and
the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. g. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage
ED. 4. PARROTT,
Speaker pro tenn. of the House of Rep
resentatiyes.
ROBERT C. KIRK,
President of the Senate
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