When creditors may make nomination; who may be nominated.

On the day appointed for the settlement of the administration of an estate declared insolvent or on any day to which the same is continued, the creditors present or represented may nominate to the court any fit person, an inhabitant of this state, as administrator of the property, rights and credits of such estate unadministered.

(Code 1852, §1840; Code 1867, §2189; Code 1876, §2561; Code 1886, §2231; Code 1896, §299; Code 1907, §2767; Code 1923, §6006; Code 1940, T. 61, §393.)