Chap. 6.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 42 of the Code of Virginia
and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1402
of the Code of Virginia, approved March 28, 1902, in relation to suits by
and against trustees, approved March 15, 1918. CH B 3)

Approved February .4, 1920.

_ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-two of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

Sec. 42. Suits by and against trustees—The said trustees, and
such as are mentioned in sections forty-nine, fifty and fifty-one, may,
in their own names, sue for and recover any real or personal estate
held by them respectively in trust, or damages for injury thereto, and
be sued in relation to the same. Such suit notwithstanding the death
of any of the said trustees, or the appointment of others, shall proceed
in the names of the trustees by or against whom it was instituted.

In any case where such trustees shall have given any deed of
trust, or encumbered such real or personal estate in any manner to
secure any debt, and such trustees have since died, and such religious
congregation or organization has become extinct, or has ceased to
occupy said property, so that it may be regarded as abandoned
property, the beneficiary entitled to the debt secured by such deed
of trust or encumbrance, may for the purpose of subjecting said
estate to the payment of such lien, institute a suit in equity in the
circuit or corporation court of the county or city in which said prop-
erty or the greater part thereof is, against the members of such
religious congregation or organization as parties unknown, proceed-
ing by order of publication as provided by chapter two hundred and
fifty-three.

2. That an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section
fourteen hundred and two of the Code of Virginia, approved March
twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, in relation to suits by and
against trustees, approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
eighteen, be, and the same is, hereby repealed. |

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.