Chap. 110.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6299 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the substitution of trustees in place of
trustees who have died, resigned, removed or declined the trust, so as to
validate decrees or orders of substitution heretofore made by courts of
competent jurisdiction. [S B 274]

Approved March 14, 1934

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-two hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6299. A motion under the preceding section shall be after
reasonable notice to all persons interested in the execution of the trust
other than the plaintiff in such motion, and if any of the parties on
whom such notice is required to be served be under twenty-one years
of age, the court or clerk shall appoint some discreet and competent at-
torney at law as guardian ad litem to such infant defendant, on whom
notice may be served. If any such party should be insane or a convict,
the notice shall be served on his committee, if any, but if none, a guard-
ian ad litem shall be appointed for him in the manner hereinbefore pro-
vided for appointment of a guardian ad litem for an infant. No notice
need be given to a trustee who has removed from the State, declined to
accept the trust, or has resigned, nor to the personal representative of
one who is dead.

In the case of the substitution of the trustees or trustees in a deed
f trust, securing the payment of indebtedness it shall be necessary to
rive notice of the motion only to the trustee (unless notice to him is
lispensed with as aforesaid), the beneficiaries appearing of record or
cnown to the plaintiff in such motion, the debtor or debtors mentioned
n the deed of trust, the person or persons, if any, who may be shown
yy the deed records to have assumed payment of the indebtedness in
vhole or in part, and the person or persons in whom the equitable title
o the property conveyed by the deed of trust is vested at the time of
he motion as shown by the said records, and in such case when the
aotice of motion in writing shall have been filed in the clerk’s office
yf the court having jurisdiction as defined in section sixty-two hundred
and ninety-eight of the Code, service of stich notice as to all parties
nentioned in section six thousand and sixty-nine may be made in con-
formity with the provisions of sections six thousand and sixty-nine, six
thousand and seventy, six thousand and seventy-one, six thousand and
seventy-two, and six thousand and seventy-three-a of the Code.

Any such decree or order of substitution heretofore made by a court
of competent jurisdiction is hereby validated.

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing a court
of equity from substituting a trustee in a suit instituted for that purpose.