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Power to grant limited administration.
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47. The chairman on being satisfied of the death of any person concerning whose property any suit or proceeding shall be pending in the Civil Bill Court, and that there is no legal personal representative of such person, or no legal personal representative whose services are available for the purposes of such suit or proceeding, and that the personalty of such deceased person did not at the time of his decease exceed in value the sum of five hundred pounds, exclusive of what the deceased may have been entitled to as a trustee and not beneficially, but without deducting anything on account of the debts due and owing from the deceased, and that the annual value of the lands of which the deceased at the time of his death was beneficially seised or possessed did not exceed thirty pounds, and that it is necessary or expedient for the purposes of such suit or proceeding that a legal personal representative should be raised to such deceased person may, by order in writing under his hand, appoint such person as such chairman shall consider proper to be administrator of such deceased person, limited to the purposes of such suit or proceeding; and upon any such appointment the chairman may impose such terms on the person appointed as to paying or securing the probable amount of any duties payable in respect of the assets of the deceased person, or as to giving security, or as to any other matter relating to the administration of the assets, as to the chairman shall seem expedient, and the person so appointed shall for all such purposes represent such deceased person in the same manner as if such deceased person had died intestate, and administration had been duly granted to the person so appointed of all the personal estate and effects of such deceased person.
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