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Penalty on administering effects without proving the will, &c. within a certain period.
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2. And for the better securing the payment of the stamp duties on probates, administrations, and legacies in Ireland, be it enacted, that every person who shall after the commencement of this Act administer in Ireland the personal estate or any part of the personal estate of any deceased person without having proved the will of the deceased or taken out letters of administration of such personal estate in Ireland within twelve calendar months after the death of such deceased person, if he or she shall die after the commencement of this Act (or with respect to persons who shall have died before the commencement of this Act, within six calendar months after the commencement of this Act), shall forfeit and pay the sum of forty pounds British currency.
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