Chap. 75.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5402 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to commissioner of accounts. [H B 66]

Approved February 28, 1930

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

Section 5402. The judge of each court in this State having juris-
diction of the probate of wills and granting administrations on estates
of decedents may, either in term or in vacation, appoint, in addition
to the commissioner of accounts, an assistant commissioner of accounts,
who shall perform all the duties and exercise all of the powers required
of the commissioner of accounts in all cases in which the commissioner
of accounts from any cause is so situated that he cannot perform the
duties of his office, or in which the commissioner of accounts is of
Opinion it is improper for him to act, and such assistant commissioner
of accounts may perform such duties and exercise such powers in any
other case except cases in which he is so situated that he cannot act,
or in which he is of opinion it is improper for him to act. Any such
general authority to such assistant commissioner of accounts under this
act to be given in the discretion of the judge of such court and at the
time of the appointment by him of such assistant commissioner of
accounts. An assistant commissioner of accounts making a settlement
of a fiduciary account under the provisions of this section shall, within
thirty days, report the fact and date of such settlement to the com-
missioner of accounts, who shall make an entry of the same in his
record books.