CHAPTER 79.
AN ACT to amend Section 17, of Chapter 90, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Section 17, of Chapter 90, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting, between the word "devise" and the word "provided," in the eighth line of said section, the words "and if by any will authority be given to an executor to sell real estate, and the person so named as executor therein shall die, or be removed, or discharged from his office of executor before the execution of said authority, or shall refuse or neglect to give bond, or renounce, or is incapable, the person or persons having the execution of the said will, or the survivor or survivors of them, if several, shall have authority to sell said real estate in execution of said devise.
Passed at Dover, February 17, 1871.