Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02
AN ACT to facilitate the settlement ofthe Estates
of IntaStateS.

| of Intestates.
SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina now met and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority of the same
That if after the expiration of twelve months
from the grant of letters of administration on
the estate of any person dying lntestate, II
shall be made to appear to the satisfaction OF
the Judge of the Court Of Probate by winch
said letters of administration were granted,
that the administrator OF administrators OF
such estate are unable to ascertain the where
abouts of any person supposed to be entitled
as diStributee of such estate, or whether any
person, who, if living would be entitled as
distributee of said estate, be dead or not, and
that such person has never been domlclled IN THIS
State, it shall he lawful for the said Judge OF
Probate to issue citation addressed to all per-
sons interested in the said estate sdistrlbutees,
calling on such person whose whereabouts or
the fact of whose death is unknown, his per-
So1ial representatives or distributes, to he and
appear before the said Probate Court on day
and at a certain hour to be specified IN SAID
citation, and show cause why the said admin
istrator should not be decreed to distribute
said estate, as if the said person whose where
abouts or the fact of whose death IS unknown,
had died before said intestate, and notifying
all persons entitled to the said estate as dis
tributee or Otherwise.to appear on the day ana
at the time 50 to be appointed, before the sald
Court, to intervene for their interest in SAID
estate. That the day fixed in said citation, on
which cause shall be shown as aforesaid, shall
be the first Monday in the month, and shall
be not less than three months after the date
of said citation. That the said citation shall
be published once week for six successive
weeks in one newspaper published in the coun-
ty in which said Probate Court is held, the
first publication of the said citation to be
made within ten days after the date thereof,
said newspaper to be designated by the sad
Judge Of Probate Provided, the said Judge
of Probate shall have a right in his discretion
to order such citation to be published once a
week for three successive weeks IN one other
newspaper published in such other place as ne
shall think most likely to give notice to the
parties interested in said estate.
SEC. 2. That the publication of said citation,
as hereinbefore prescribed, shall be proved by
filing with the said Judge Of Probate copies
of the newspapers containing the publication
of said citation and the affidavit OF the pub
Usher or printer of the said respective news
papers.
SEC. 3. That at the time fixed in said cita-
tion for cause to be shown as aforesaid, due
proof of publication having been made and
filed as hereinbefore required, it no person
appears as therein required, the said Probate
Court shall decree distribution of said estate
to be made as if the person whose whereabouts
or the fact of whose death is unknown had
died before the intestate, and distribution so
made by the administrator or administrators
shall be a full and complete discharge to the
administrator or administrators
Sec 4. That at the time fixed in the said
citation for cause TO he shown as aforesaid
due proof of publication having been made