Chap. 419.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6269 of the Code of. Vir-
ginia, relating to sale and renting of property by special commissioner.

[H B 307]
Approved: April 1, 1938

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

Section 6269. Except as hereinafter provided; no special com-
missioner appointed by a decree or order of court, or of a judge in
vacation, to sell or rent any property, shall advertise the property for
sale or renting, or sell or rent the same, until he shall have given bond
before the court or judge, or the clerk of the court in his office, in a
penalty, to be prescribed by the court or judge, sufficient to cover at
least the probable amount of the whole purchase money or rent, and
shall have obtained from the said clerk a certificate that the bond
required by law or by the decree or order has been given, which cer-
tificate or a copy thereof shall be appended to the advertisement ; pro-
vided, however, that in any case of the sale of real estate under decree
or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, the court may direct all
the cash proceeds of such sale to be deposited by the purchaser to the
credit of said court in.some bank to be designated by it, and may direct
that the notes, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, evidencing the
deferred instalments of the purchase price to be deposited by the pur-
chaser in such bank, or with the clerk of said. court, for safe-keeping
under the control of ‘the court, or for collection to its credit, and may
inl its discretion, dispense with the bond now required of special com-
missioners before proceeding with such sale. The clerk shall make the
certificate whenever the bond has been given and note the same in the
proceedings in the cause, and shall receive therefor a fee of twenty-five
cents, to be taxed in the costs of the suit. The certificate or'a copy
thereof shall be returned with the report of the sale or renting.