Chap. 120.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2629 of the Code orf Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 19, 1903.
Approved March 10, 1906.

1. Be it enacted bv the general assembly of Virginia. That section
twenty-six hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended
and-re-enacted by an act approved December ten, nineteen hundred and
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$2629. How property of non-resident minor or insane person trans-
ferred to foreign guardian or committee—When any minor or insane
person entitled to property or money in this State resides out of it, on
the petition of a guardian or committee lawfully appointed and quali-
fied in the State or country of his residence, to which petition such
minor or insane person, and the committee of such insane person, if
there be one, shall be made parties defendant, and the court shall ap-
point a guardian ad litem to such minor or insane defendant, who as
well as such committee, if there be one, shall answer the petition on oath,
the cireuit court of the county, or circuit or corporation court of the
corporation, in which the estate is, may order the guardian or com-
mittee in this State, if there be one, to pay and deliver to such foreign
guardian or committee, or his agent or attorney, all personal property
and money in his hands belonging to said ward or insane person, and
authorize such foreign guardian or committee to sue for, recover and
receive all money or personal property which belongs to his ward or
insane person, including the accruing rents of his real estate, in like
manner as if he were appointed a guardian or committee of such ward
or insane person in this State, and remove the same to the State or
country in which said foreign guardian or committee was appointed
and qualified.

2. Inasmuch as certain non-residents are now entitled to have their
estates removed as contemplated by this act, and an emergency exists for
the removal of said estates, this act shall be in force from its passage.