Year: 1878

An Act concerning the Settlement of Estates. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

 resentatives in General Assembly convened:

 Section 1. The court of probate shall direct the executor or administrator on every estate of deceased person which shall be represent en so be insOlvent and the trustee of an insol- vent debtor, to cite. by advertising in news paper published in the district wherein the es- tate is in settlement, or if there be none, in newspaper published nearest to such district, all persons in interest to appear, if they sec cause, before said court at time and place ap- pointed by said court, and designated in the notice, to be heard relative to the appointment of commissioners to receive and decide upon the claims of the creditors of such estate and after hearing had, shall appoint two or more disinterested persons to be such commissioners

 who shall be sworn to faithfully discharge their duties.

 Sec 2. Commissioners on estates of insol- vent debtors shall cause notice of the times and places of their meetings to be given by ad- vertising for one week in one daily newspaper, or four times in one weekly newspaper publish ed in or nearest to the place where such estate | is in course of settlement and having q circu- | lation in that district.

 Sec. 3. Commi ssioners on the estates of de- ceased persons shall cause notice of the times

 and places of their meetings to be given by | advertising one day in one daily newspaper, CT | or one week in one weekly newspaper pub

 lished in or nearest to the place where such estate is in course of settlement and having | circulation in such district, unless further mo- l tice shall be ordered by the court; and the l commissioners on the estates of both insolvent | debtors and deceased persons shall cause a l copy of such notice to be sent to every known 1 creditor of such estate witbIn ten days after | their appointment.

 Suc f. Whenever in the course of the set

 clement of the estate of deceased person the settlement of the estate of, a deceased person l the eAecutor or administrator on such estate

 shall, after the expiration of the time limited | by the probate court for presenting claims

 against such estate, represent such estate to 1 be insolvent, the court of probate for the dis

 trct in which such estate is in settlement shall | appoint commissioners to receive and decide upon the claims of the creditors of such estate, | in the manner provided in the first section of | this act but no further time shall be limited

 by said court for presenting claims against said

 estate unless said court in it's discretion, shall | find such further limitation to be necessary. | The executor or administrator on such estate | shall deliver to said commissioners, immedl-

 ately upon their appointment, all claims l against such estate which shall have been prt ! sented to him, and shall cause notice of the | names of such commissioners, and of the time l and place of their meeting 10 be given to every

 person who has presented claim against such

 estate in such manner as the court of probate

 shall direct.

 Sec 5. Section seven of part three, chapter

 eleven, title eighteen of the general statutes,

 revision of 1875, and the amendment to said

 section seven, contained in section two of

 chapter ninety-s seven of the public acts of 1875,

 on page sixty -four of said acts, in tine words

 following ''Provided that the notice of the

 times and places of the meetings of the com

 missioners on insolvent estates of deceased

 persons shall be deemed legal notice, if pub l lished such number of times as the court of

 probate in its discretion shall order, and chap

 ter one hundred and eleven of the public acts

 of 1877, (page two hundred and nine), all re-

 lating to the appointment of commissioners on

 insolvent estates, and the nptice to be given

 by such commissioners, are hereby repealed. | Approved March 27, 1878.