Section XVIII. The costs of the reference and examination, and those of the Advocate general, when such are directe

XVIII. The costs of the reference and examination, and those of the Advocate general, when such are directed to be paid, shall be defrayed either by the defendant or defendants, in case he or they shall be decreed to pay the costs, or out of the Estates ratably as the said Court shall be recovered from the defendant or defendants, the same shall be repaid to the estates by which the same were in the first instant contributed, and the Court shall have power to order the Administrator General, or other person or persons defendants, to receive his or her costs out of the said Estates if it shall think fit.