CHAP. 288.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
v.de for the recordation of names of the heirs of a person dying in-
testate, approved March 13, 1912, and further to require the recorda-
tion of the names of the heirs of any person dying, and as is a
qualification upon their estate. (H. B. 100.)

Approved March 18, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to provide for the recordation of names
of the heirs of a person dying intestate, approved March thir-
teenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

It shall be the duty of all personal representatives to file in
the clerk’s office of the court in which they receive their ap-
pointment, or in the clerk’s office of the court in which any will
is recorded at the time of the qualification of any personal rep-
resentative of any person, a list containing the names, and so
far as possible the ages and addresses of the heirs of each per-
son upon whose estate there is a qualification; to which state-
ment shall be attached the affidavit of such personal representa-
tive that said list is believed by affiant to be true. In case any
will is probated and no personal representative be appointed or
qualify such list shall be filed by the person offering such will
for probate.

2. It shall be the duty of the clerk of each court in which
such certificates are filed to record such certificates in the deed
books and properly index the same in the name of the decedent
as grantor and the names of the heirs as grantees. The cost of
recording this list is to be twenty-five cents, and shall be paid
by the estate of the decedent.

3. Such list, so made and recorded, shall be taken as prima
facie evidence of the facts required to be therein stated.

4. Be it further enacted, that no personal representative
shall be allowed commissions on an estate until said list is filed
and receipted bill from the clerk, for recording same, is filed
with the vouchers in his settlement, unless an affidavit be filed,
stating that the heirs of such decedent are to the affiant un-

own.