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river, published and re-published, (p. 4). In the Resolu- 
tions of the States General, on the 28th August 1775, 
there is an opinion of Dutch lawyers respecting an 
Appeal, Pro Deo, against a sentence of the Court of 
Demerara (p. 147). The publication of claims against 
Boedels was provided for by the Combined Court on the 
29th of June 1775 (pp. 92 to 96). The Court of Justice 
of Essequibo, on the 5th of May 1766, allowed 5 per 
cent, for the administration of Boedels (p. 41). As to 
Intestates, there is an opinion of the Orphan Chamber, on 
the 10th April 1752, as to persons dying without wills, 
(189). On the 9th July 1791, it was ordered that notice 
be given in cases of deaths of intestates, (p. 200). The 
charges and commissions of the Orphan Chamber were 
dealt with by the Council of Ten at Amsterdam, on the 
10th 06tober 1774, (p. 170). Publication as to Insol- 
vents' Boedels in Demerara and Essequibo was provided 
for by a Resolution of the States General of the 30th of 
May 1777 (pp. 336 to 361). It was ordered by the 
Council of Ten, on the 4th June 1778, that no member 
of the Court should be a sequestrator (p. 318). 
MARRIAGE. — The Advocate Trotz seems to have 
had some trouble in getting married to Mrs. SPOORS. 
One MlLBOURNE stopped the marriage, as appears by 
the proceedings of the Court of Justice of Essequibo, on 
the 10th of December 1765 (p. 25). Trotz thereupon 
brought a suit against MlLBOURNE, and gained it. 
MlLBOURNE appealed, and the publication of Banns was 
postponed in consequence [See Minutes of Court of 
Justice, 10th December 1765, and 7th July 17661pp. igto 
27, and 49]. In the same Court on the 5th of May 1766, 
an application was made for leave to marry the wife of a 
