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Roark by &c vs } Decree May term 1856 Samuel B Major admr. &c

  This cause came on this day to be heard upon the bill, and answer

of Samuel B Major administrator with the will annexed of Eleanor Compton decd. and [illeg] and was argued bu counsel on consideration whereof the court* doth adjudge order and decree that the defendant Samuel B Major do render an account of his administration of the estate of said Eleanor Compton before one of the Commissioners of this court who is directed to state, examine & settle the same and report the same to this court.

• not at this time passing on the question whether the slaves were rightly sold or not