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MISSOURI. 39
§ 7. The accounts for printing shall be audited and settled by the Auditor of
Public Accounts on the certificate of the Secretary of State, and paid as other
expenses of printing.
§ 8. , The several clerks shall be allowed the like compensation' for cVpies
made, under the provisions of this act, as for other copies of decisions for publication as now provided by law.
§ 9. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to sell five hundred copies
of the fourth volume of the decisions of the supreme court, at one dollar and a
half a volume.
APPROVED, Feb. 1.1, 1839.
AN ACT supplementary to "an act concerning Dower" approved, March 20th, 1835.
Sec. 1.    In what cases the widow and children of an intestate may petition for assignment of dower, and
2. Proceedings on such petition.
3. Commissioners shall make report.
4. In case the lands are not susceptible of division,the petition shall be rejected.
§ 1. When any resident of the State of Missouri, owning lands and real estate at no greater distance apart than one hundred and twenty miles, but situated
and lying in several counties, and such resident dies intestate, or has died intestate, leaving a widow and children; that, after the administration settlements of
such deceased's estate, if there be sufficient assets exclusive of real estatelo pay-
all the debts thereof, then the widow and children of such, deceased may petition the circuit court of the county, wherein any of the real estate is situated, setting forth all the facts of the case and tire proportional part of the estate that
each petitioner is entitled to receive, describing all the real-estate of the deceased,
and in what counties situate, praying assignment of dower in the same to the
widow, and division and partition of the residue amongst the children or heirs.
§ 2. The court may thereupon make an order, and appoint three competent
poisons as commissioners, who, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, shall take an oath or affirmation honestly and impartially to execute the
trust reposed in them respectively. They shall then proceed to view, value and
appraise all the lands and real estate mentioned in the petition, and to ascertain:
and set off the widow's dower therein, and to apportion and divide the, residue of
said lands, according to quantity and quality, among the children orheirs, agreeable to their respective shares, giving to each, his or hereqaal part thereof in valuation, in one contiguous body, or as nearly so as maybe, all things considered,
§ 3. The commissioners shall make a full report of their proceedings to the
court appointing them, at the next term thereof, and set forth and describe the
land assigned by them as dower of the widow, and also, the part apportioned and"
assigned by them to each heir; which report,if approved by the court, shall have
the certificate of such approval endorsed thereon, certified under the seal of the
court and signature of the clerk, and, it shall be recorded in the recorder's office
of each county, wherein any of the lands and real estate are situated.
§ 4. If, in the opinion and judgment of the commissioners, the lands and real estate are not susceptible of division, as provided in this act, without great injury thereto, then in that case, the commissioners may notmeke division and par-
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Transcript MISSOURI. 39 § 7. The accounts for printing shall be audited and settled by the Auditor of Public Accounts on the certificate of the Secretary of State, and paid as other expenses of printing. § 8. , The several clerks shall be allowed the like compensation' for cVpies made, under the provisions of this act, as for other copies of decisions for publication as now provided by law. § 9. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to sell five hundred copies of the fourth volume of the decisions of the supreme court, at one dollar and a half a volume. This act shall take effect from its passage. APPROVED, Feb. 1.1, 1839. DOWER. AN ACT supplementary to "an act concerning Dower" approved, March 20th, 1835. Sec. 1. In what cases the widow and children of an intestate may petition for assignment of dower, and partition. 2. Proceedings on such petition. 3. Commissioners shall make report. 4. In case the lands are not susceptible of division,the petition shall be rejected. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Stale of Missouri, as follows: § 1. When any resident of the State of Missouri, owning lands and real estate at no greater distance apart than one hundred and twenty miles, but situated and lying in several counties, and such resident dies intestate, or has died intestate, leaving a widow and children; that, after the administration settlements of such deceased's estate, if there be sufficient assets exclusive of real estatelo pay- all the debts thereof, then the widow and children of such, deceased may petition the circuit court of the county, wherein any of the real estate is situated, setting forth all the facts of the case and tire proportional part of the estate that each petitioner is entitled to receive, describing all the real-estate of the deceased, and in what counties situate, praying assignment of dower in the same to the widow, and division and partition of the residue amongst the children or heirs. § 2. The court may thereupon make an order, and appoint three competent poisons as commissioners, who, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, shall take an oath or affirmation honestly and impartially to execute the trust reposed in them respectively. They shall then proceed to view, value and appraise all the lands and real estate mentioned in the petition, and to ascertain: and set off the widow's dower therein, and to apportion and divide the, residue of said lands, according to quantity and quality, among the children orheirs, agreeable to their respective shares, giving to each, his or hereqaal part thereof in valuation, in one contiguous body, or as nearly so as maybe, all things considered, § 3. The commissioners shall make a full report of their proceedings to the court appointing them, at the next term thereof, and set forth and describe the land assigned by them as dower of the widow, and also, the part apportioned and" assigned by them to each heir; which report,if approved by the court, shall have the certificate of such approval endorsed thereon, certified under the seal of the court and signature of the clerk, and, it shall be recorded in the recorder's office of each county, wherein any of the lands and real estate are situated. § 4. If, in the opinion and judgment of the commissioners, the lands and real estate are not susceptible of division, as provided in this act, without great injury thereto, then in that case, the commissioners may notmeke division and par-