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     said Court shall deem right; provided always 
     
     that no order to be made as aforesaid, shall in 
     
     any manner bind the assets so appropriated as 
     
     against the persons entitled to the estate of the 
     
     deceased, subject to the contingent liability, and 
     
     any person interested in such appropriated 
     
     assets may apply to the Court, touching the 
     
     same as he may be advised. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXIII. After the filing of such report as 
     
     aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said Court, 
     
     upon the application of the Executors or Ad- 
     
     ministrators of the deceased, by order to be 
     
     made on motion, to restrain by injunction any 
     
     proceeding at law against them by any person 
     
     having or claiming to have any demand upon 
     
     the estate of the deceased, by reason of any 
     
     debt or liability, other than the persons who 
     
     may have established contingent liabilities; 
     
     under the said order for which no appropriation 
     
     'may have been made. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXIV. In case no debt or liability, or no 
     
     debt or liability other than a contingent liability, 
     
     shall have been allowed as aforesaid, or in case 
     
     any debt or liability other than as aforesaid, 
     
     shall havelbeen allowed as aforesaid, then after 
     
     the same shall have been paid or provided for 
     
     'by apprOpriation as aforesaid, all payments 
     
     made bv the Executors or Administrators, or any 
     
     of theni, on account of the estate of the deceased 
     
     person, and all dispositions of such assets made 
     
     by them or any of them on account of such 
     
     estate, shall, as against all persons having or 
     
     claiming to have any demand upon such estate 
     
     by reason of any debt or liability, other than 
     
     persons who may have established under the 
     
     said order any contingent liability, for which no 
     
     such appropriation as aforesaid may have been 
     
     made, be as good and effectual as if the same 
     
     had been made under a decree of the said Court. 
     
     Provided always that nothing herein contained, 
     
     shall in any manner affect or prejudice the rights 
     
     of any creditor, or other person having any de- 
     
     mand or claim upon the estate of the deceased, 
     
     against any assets so paid or disposed of, or 
     
     against the persons to whom such payment or 
     
     disposition may have been made, or against any 
     
     assets appropriated under the prowsmns of this 
     
     Act, and the apprOpriation of which, if made 
     
     under a decree of the said Court, in a suit to 
     
     which he was not a party, would not have been 
     
     binding upon him. 
     
    

    
     XXV. All exceptions for scandal, imperti- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     nence and insufficiency, in any proceedings under 
     
     this Act, which, according to the existing prac- 
     
     tice of the said Court, would have been referred 
     
     to the masters of the said Court, shall not be so 
     
     referred, but shall be heard and determined by 
     
     the said Court in the first instance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXVI. Notwithstanding any rule or practice 
     
     of the said Court to the contrary, it shall be 
     
     lawful for the said Court, at the hearing of any 
     
     cause or any further directions therein, to re- 
     
     ceive proof by affidavit of all proper parties 
     
     being before the Court, and of all such matters as 
     
     are necessary to be proved for enabling the said 
     
     Court to order the payment of any moneys be- 
     
     longing to any married woman, and of all such 
     
     other matters not directly in issue in the cause, 
     
     as in the Opinion of the said Court may safely 
     
     and preperly be so proved. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXVII. In all matters and proceedings 
     
     under the provisions of this Act, the rules of 
     
     practice of the High Court of Chancery in 
     
     England, as now established, regulating the 
     
     proceedings in like matters and similar cases, 
     
     shall be in force, subject to such alterations, to 
     
     be made by the Chancellor of the said Island, 
     
     with the advice and consent of the Master of 
     
     the Rolls, as the local circumstances of this 
     
     Colony, and construction of the Court of 
     
     Chancery may require ; provided always that 
     
     nothing herein contained shall be construed to 
     
     limit or affect the power of the Chancellor, by 
     
     and with the advice and consent of the Master 
     
     of the Rolls, to direct and declare the forms 
     
     and proceedings to be observed in all matters 
     
     in the said court, under the provisions of the 
     
     Act of the General Assembly of the said Island, 
     
     passed in the twelfth year of the reign of Her 
     
     present Majesty, Queen Victoria, Chapter four- 
     
     teen, (14) intituled “ An Act for the improve- 
     
     ment of the practice of the Court of Chancery 
     
     of this Island;” and provided also, that for 
     
     any matter or proceeding required to be done, 
     
     or had under the provisions of this Act, and 
     
     for which no provision has been made in the 
     
     table of fees to the said recited Act, annexed, 
     
     the Masters of the said Court are hereby re- 
     
     quired, upon the taxing of any costs, to allow 
     
     such charges therefor as to them shall be deemed 
     
    
   
   
    
     fair and reasonable. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXVIII. The following words and ex, 
     
     pressions in this Act shall have the several 
     
    
   
   
    
     meanings hereby assigned to them, unless