Chap. 366.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for
the payment of small amounts into court and then to the parties entitled to
receive the same, without the intervention of any administrator, guardian or
committee, approved March 16, 1920. [H B 376]

Approved March 22, 1923

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for the payment of small amounts into court
and then to the parties entitled to receive the same, without the inter-
vention of any administrator, guardian or committee, approved March
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 1. Whenever there is, accruing to any person, adult or in-
fant, any sum of money from any source, not exceeding five hundred
dollars, the same may be paid into the court of the county or corpora-
tion having jurisdiction in fiduciary matters, in which such fund ac-
crued or arose, and, by said court, by an order entered of record, paid
into the hands of such persons, if considered competent to expend and
use the same in his or her behalf, by such court, or for some other
person for him or her, who is considered competent to administer the
same, for the benefit of such person, without the intervention of an
administrator, guardian or committee, whether such person reside
within or without this State. The clerk of such court shall take a re-
ceipt from the person to whom said money be paid, which shall show
the source from which derived, the amount, to whom it belongs, when
and to whom paid, which receipt shall be signed and acknowledged by
the person so receiving the said money, and entered of record in the
book, in such clerk’s office, and indexed, in which the current fiduciary
accounts are entered.

After such a receipt is so executed and entered of record the per-
son owing said money shall be discharged of said obligation, as fully
as 1f the same had been paid to an administrator, guardian or com-
nuttee.

No bond shall be required of the party to whom said money 1s
paid by the court.