1793: ~— on delays in the court of Sefston. 283 
In a procefs of ranking and sale, delays occur, 
previous to the order to make up the ‘state, one 
of which is not extracting the decreet of certificati~ 
on. It is not easy to compel the common agent 
to take out tke extract; but the interlocutor or de- 
creet itself may be made fima/ in two, three, or four 
weeks, as may be thought expedient ; and a regula- 
tion ought also to take place against opening it up — 
_on slight pretences, such as are admitted of at pre- 
sent, or indeed on any occasion fhort of minority or 
inability to act. This appears to be necefsary for 
bringing forward the creditors to produce their in- 
terests in proper time. . 
Other delays occur after the state and order is 
lodged. It always contains objections against num- 
bers of the zuterests or grounds of debt produced 
for the creditors. And before the procefs can tra- 
vel round the different doers, for these several cre- 
ditors, to have the objections answered in succefsi- 
on, not weeks or months only, but, whole se/sions 
are sometimes consumed. Almost an equal space - 
elapses in the making of duplies, and perhaps half the 
time may be taken as the medium for lodging 
replies ; but this letter is already too long to follow 
the subject farther, and therefore I hasten to close it, 
being &c. 3 
LENTULUS. | 
