Chap. 30.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5249 of the Code of Virginia,
in the relation to the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the
estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal rep-
resentatives, and curators, by the clerks of the circuit and corporation courts,
and other courts. . [H B 28]

Approved February 20, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-two hundred and forty-nine of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 5249. Probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of
the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of per-
sonal representatives, and curators, by the clerks of the circuit and
corporation courts.

The clerk of any circuit or corportion court, or the clerk of any
court having jurisdiction of the probate of wills other than the clerks
of the circuit court and the corporation courts of the city of Rich-
‘mond, may appoint appraisers of estates of decedents, admit wills to
probate, appoint and qualify executors, administrators and curators
of decedents, and require and take from them the necessary bonds
in the same manner and with like effect as the court could do if in
session. Such powers and duties may be exercised and discharged
as well during the sessions of the court as at other times.

Such clerk shall keep an order book, in which shall be entered all
orders made by him respecting the subjects aforesaid. Any person
interested may, within one year after the entering of such an order,
appeal therefrom as a matter of right, upon giving bond as provided
by law, to the court whose clerk has made the order. Upon appli-
cation being made for such appeal, the said clerk shall enter forth-
with in his order book an order allowing such appeal, and docket the
same as a preferred cause for trial at the next term of the court.
The said court, at any term, shall hear and determine the matter as
though it had been presented to the said court in the first instance,
and shall cause a copy of the order on the order book of the court
embracing its final action to be copied by the clerk into his order
book. At any time after such appeal is allowed the said court, or
the judge thereof in vacation, may make any such order for the pro-
tection of the parties interested or for the protection or preservation
of any property involved as might have been made had the matter
been originally presented to the court, or as may seem needful.