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     and his committee, if any, as the case may be, ior other person, makingany payment, 'or dcmg 
     
    
   
   
    
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     and tiat upon the hearing of such motion the ; any act in conformity With the declaration con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     said Court may give leave to set down such? 
     
     case, if it shall be of opinion that it is proper ' 
     
     that the question raised therein shall be deter- 
     
     mined thereon, and shall be satisfied by affidavit 
     
     or other sufficient evidence that the statements 
     
     contained therein, so far as the same affect the 
     
     interest of such married woman, infant or 
     
     lunatic, are true, but otherwise may refuse 
     
     such application ; provided always that, in case 
     
     the said Court upon the hearing of such appli- 
     
     cation shall be of opinion that it is proper that 
     
     ‘the question raised in such case shall be deter- 
     
     mined thereon, but shall not be satisfied that 
     
     the statements contained therein, so far as they 
     
     affecttheinterests of such married woman, infant 
     
     or lunatic, are true, it shall be lawful for the said 
     
     Court to refer it to one of the masters thereof, 
     
     to make such enquiries as to the Court shall 
     
     seem proper; and upon further application being 
     
     ,made by motion, as aforesaid, upon the said 
     
     master’s report, to give or refuse leave to set 
     
     down such case, as to the Court shall seem fit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIV. It shall be lawful for the said Court, 
     
     upon the hearing of any such special case, as 
     
     aforesaid, to determine the questions raised 
     
     therein, or any of them, and by decree to declare 
     
     its opinion thereon; and so far as the case 
     
     shall admit of the same upon the right involved 
     
     therein, without proceeding to administer any 
     
     relief - consequent upon such declaration; and 
     
     that every such declaration of the said Court, 
     
     contained in any such decree, shall have the 
     
     same force and effect as such declaration would 
     
     have had, and} shall be binding to the same 
     
     extent as such declaration would have been if 
     
     contained in a decree made in a suit between 
     
     the same parties instituted by bill: Provided 
     
     always that it shall be lawful for the said 
     
     Court, ifit shall see fit so to do, before pro- 
     
     ceeding to make such decree as aforesaid, to 
     
     Send any case or cases for the opinion of the 
     
     Supreme Court of Judicature, reserving the 
     
     consideration of all further directions, and of 
     
     the costs, and to make such decree as aforesaid 
     
     upon" such further directions; provided, also, 
     
     that, if upon the hearing of such special case, 
     
     as aforesaid, the Court shall be of Opinion that. 
     
     the questions raised thereby, or any of them, 
     
     cannot properly be decided upon such case, 
     
     .. the said Court may refuse to decide the same. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ., . XvJE‘very executor. administrator, trustee 
     
    
   
   
    
     tained in any decree made upon a‘special case, 
     
     shall, in all respects, be as fully and effectually 
     
     protected and indemnified by such declaration 
     
     as if such payment had been made or act done 
     
    
   
   
    
     under, or in pursuance of the express order of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the said Court, made in a suit between the same 
     
     parties, instituted by bill, save only as to any 
     
     rights or claims of any person in respect of 
     
     matters not determined by such declaration. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ~ XVI. When any person shall be desirous to 
     
    

    
     have a special case reheard, or to appeal from 
     
     the decision thereon, it shall be lawful for the 
     
     said Court, upon application for that purpose, 
     
     at the time of the decree upon such special 
     
     case being made, or at any time afterwards, and 
     
     upon such conditions, if any, as the Court shall 
     
     think fit, to order that the declaration contained 
     
     in such decree shall not be acted upon for such. 
     
     time as the said Court shall think just. 
     
    

    
     XVII. Any documents referred to in, a 
     
     special case, and any copies thereof, or extracts 
     
     therefrom, [identified by the signatures of the 
     
     solicitors for all parties, or of the agents of 
     
     S‘Jcll solicitors, may be produced and read at 
     
     the hearing of such case without further proof, 
     
     and that it shall be lawful for the said Court, 
     
     at any time after the filing of the special case, 
     
     and the entering of appearances thereto, by 
     
     the persons named as defendants therein, to 
     
     order any document which may be admitted 
     
     thereby to be in the possession of any party to 
     
     such case, to be deposited and produced insueh 
     
     manner, and for such purposes as the Court 
     
     shall think fit. ’ 
     
    

    
     XVIII. And whereas it is expedient to 
     
     provide means for enabling executors or ad- 
     
     ministrators of deceased persons to ascertain 
     
     whether there are any outstanding debt/s or 
     
     liabilities affecting the personal estate of such 
     
     persons without the delay and expense of suits 
     
     to administer such estates: Be it therefore 
     
     enacted that it shall be lawful for the said 
     
     Court, upon the application of the executors 
     
     or administrators of any deceased person, by 
     
     order to be made upon motion or petition, of 
     
     course, and to be in the form or to the effect 
     
     set forth in the schedule hereto with such 
     
     variations as circumstances may require, to 
     
     refer it to one of the masters of the said Cour‘, 
     
     to take an account of the debts and liabilities 
     
     affecting the personal estate of such deceased