one year after granting administration, nor for any time after the dower and personal estate shall be assigned to the widow. 3. When a person shall die, leaving children under seven years of age, having no mother, or when the mother shall die, before the children shall arrive at the age of seven years, an allowance shall be made for the necessary maintenance of such children, until they arrive at the age of seven years, out of such part of the personal estate, and the income of such part of the real estate as would have been assigned to their mother, if she had been living. 4. If, on the return of the inventory of any intestate estate, it shall appear that the value of the whole estate does not exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, the probate court may, by a decree for that purpose, assign for the use and support of the widow and children of such intestate, or for the support of the children under seven years of age, if there be no widow, the whole of such estate, after the payment of the funeral charges, and expenses of administration. 5. If the personal estate shall amount to more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and more than the allowance mentioned in the preceding sub-divisions of this section, the same shall be applied to the payment of the debts of the deceased, with the charges of his funeral and of settling his estate. 6. The residue, if any, of the personal estate, shall be distributed in the same proportion and to the same persons, and for the same purposes, as prescribed for the descent and disposition of the real estate, except that the widow, if any, shall be entitled to receive the same share of such residue, as a child of such intestate would be entitled to.
Letters of administration granted by what court.Sect. 2. When any person shall die intestate, being an inhabitant of this territory, letters of administration of his estate shall be granted by the probate court of the county of which he was an inhabitant or resident, at the time of his death. If such deceased person, at the time of death, resides in any other territory, state, or county, leaving estate to be administered in this territory, administration thereof shall be granted by the probate court of any county in which there shall be estate to be administered; and the administration first legally granted, shall extend to all the estate of the deceased in this territory, and shall exclude the jurisdiction of the probate court of every other county.
To whom and when granted.Sect. 3. Administration of the estate of a person dying in-