Chap. 26.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5428 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the confirmation in vacation and recorda-
tion of reports filed by fiduciaries and the disposition of vouchers or other
evidence filed with the commissioner. : [H B 18]

Approved February 20, 1928

]. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifty-four hundred and twenty-eight of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 5428. The court, or judge thereof in vacation, after one
month from the time the report may have been filed in its office,
shall examine the same with such exceptions thereto as may be filed,
at any time before such examination. It shall correct anv errors
which shall appear on the exceptions, and any appearing on the
face of the account whether excepted to or not; and to this end may
commit the report to the same or another commissioner, as often as
it sees cause; or it may cause a jury to be empaneled to inquire
into any matter which, in its opinion, should be ascertained in that
Way; or it may confirm the report in a whole or in a qualified man-
ner, and shall certify in the order that it has made a personal
examination of said reports, whether excepted to or not. The clerk
shall record every report which may be so confirmed, and at the
foot of it, the order of confirmation, in what is known as will books
or the book in which is recorded the fiduciary accounts in his of-
hee and index the same according to provisions of section thirty-
three hundred and ninety-four.

Provided, however, that any such court may, in its discretion,
by an order entered of record, direct that such accounts shall be
returned to it upon uniform sheets of paper, of the grade prescribed
by section three thousand three hundred and ninety-nine, in such
dimensions and size as the court may prescribe, suitable and ready
tor binding, and in lieu of copying such reports in blank books,
may direct the clerk to file and preserve the original accounts so
returned, with the order of confirmation at the foot, in a temporary
holder, and from time to time direct that the same be substantially
bound under the supervision of the clerk into permanent books,
each properly titled “fiduciary account book,” serially numbered
and properly indexed; for which service the clerk of any court
adopting this method of recordation shall receive a fee of one dollar
for each account.

Any vouchers or other evidence remaining with the commis-
sioner at the time of such confirmation, and not wanting for any
further matter of inquiry before him, shall be returned by him to
the party who filed the same.