CHAP. 263.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-six hundred
and twenty-seven of the Code of Virginia.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-six hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Vir-
ginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2627. A certificate of debt of this State, or of a corporation
created by it, or stock in such corporation, or in any national
bank having its principal office in the State, standing on the books
of the State or corporation in the name of a person who was
domiciled at his death out of this State, and has no personal rep-
resentative qualified as such within the same, may, by his per-
sonal representative qualified according to the laws of his domicil,
be transferred as follows: Such representative may give notice,
by publication once a week for two months in a newspaper pub-
lished in the State or county in which he qualified, and two news-
papers published at the seat of the government of this State, that
he will move the circuit court of the county, or circuit or cor-
poration court of the corporation, in which the said books of the
State or corporation are kept, to direct a transfer of such certi-
ficate or stock, and upon his producing to the said court evidence
of such notice having been so published, and evidence also that
he is the personal representative according to the laws of the
domicil, the said court, after the expiration of two months from
the last publication of such notice, may, on such motion, without
any bill or other pleading, make an order that, upon the original
certificate of such debt or stock being filed with the proper officer
of the State or corporation, the same shall be transferred as
may be directed by the said representative; and by virtue of
such order a valid transfer thereof may be made on the books of
the State or such corporation by the said representative, in per-
son or by attorney, unless before such transfer be actually made,
a notice, in writing, forbidding the same to be served on such
officer, in which last mentioned case the transfer shall only be
made as would have been lawful if this section had not been
enacted.

2. An emergency existing, in the judgment of the general as-
sembly, this act shall be in force from its passage.