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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 854. 1901. 12 39 of the deceased which are by law to be administered and which shall · have come to his possession or knowled e; and if the court shall think fit it may also order him to include in the inventory all the real estate of the deceased: Provided, That this section shall not apply to the Pw·¤¢h- subscribe an oath well and truly, without partiality or prejudice, to value the goods, chattels, and personal estate and real estate (if so directed) of the deceased, as far as the same shall come to their knowled e, to the best of their skill and judgment. - §EC. 311. On the death, refusal, or neglect of any appraiser to act —¤¤f¤S¤l*<> Mtanother person may be appointed in his stead. Sec. 312. NOTICE.-—It s all be the duty of the executor, administra— N¤¤¤¤· tor, or collector and of the appraisers to give notice to the persons immediately interested in the administration, or at least two of them, if they are numerous, of the time and dplace of making said appraisement, and thereupon they shall procee at said time and place to value said property and estate, setting down each article or item separately, with the value thereof, in dollars and cents, and when such a praisement shall have been completed they shall certify the same undler their hands and seals, and the same shall be returned with the inventory. Sec. 313. CONTENTS OF IN"VENTOB.Y.—··Tl16 inventory shall contain a t ;¤¤¤¤¤¤¢~·¤ of i¤ve¤· particular statement of all bonds, mortgages, notes;a¤.Q>ther securi- ° y` ties for the payment of moneys belonging to the deceased, and of all other debts and accounts due him, which are known to the executor, administrator, or collector, who shall designate those debts which he considers Sperate and those which he consi ers desperate, and also an account of all moneys belonging to the deceased which shall come to his hands. And whenever, after an inventory has been returned, assets not therein included shall come to the knowledge of the executor, administrator, or collector an additional inventory and appraisement shall be romptly repared and filed in the manner aforesaid. Sino. 314. §XCEPTIONS.—Th8YG shall· be excepted from the inventory Excemionsfrcm in the wearing apparel of the deceased, family pictures, the family Bible, ve°t°ry' and schoolbooks used in the family, and provisions for the support of the family on hand at the time of decedent’s death. But 1f said decedentshall have been the head of a family, or a householder, the property exempt under chapter twenty-seven, as therein stated, shall so continue exempt from all claims against_ said decedent, and shall be distributed by the court to such members of the family or household as in the judgment of the court the necessity and exigencies of the particular case may require. r Sec. 315. COLLECTOR’S 1NvEN·roRY.—1n case an inventory shall be ,0§,$>“°°*°"¤ i¤v€¤· returned by a collector, duly appointed, the executor or administrator ` thereafter administering shall, within three months after his appointment, either return a new inventory in place of the collector’s inventory or an acknowledgment in writin t at he has received from the collector the articles contained in the grst inventory, and consents to be answerable for the same, as if said inventory had been made out by him as administrator, unless it shall appear that he has been prevented from making such return by the improper detention of the_ personal estate of the deceased by the collector. Sec. 316. EXECUTOR, AND so FORTH, NEGLECTING.—If there be, Q¥¢¢¤f<>r· <=¤¤·» ¤<=s· more than one executor or administrator, any one or more of them, ec mg` on the neglect of the rest, may, if authorized by the court, return an inventory.