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If suit be instituted concerning administration, the court to provide for payment of the duty.
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27. And . . . if any suit shall be instituted concerning the administration of the personal estate of any person dying testate or intestate, or any part of such estate, in which any direction shall be given touching the payment of any legacies or legacy of such person, or the residue of his or her personal estate, or any part thereof, the court wherein such suit shall be instituted shall, in giving directions concerning the same, provide for the due payment of the duties which shall be payable thereon; in taking any account of any personal estate, or otherwise acting concerning the same, such court shall take care that no allowance shall be made in respect of any legacy or part of legacy, or of any residue or part of residue, in any manner whatsoever, without due proof of the payment of the duties to which the same shall from time to time be liable.
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