Chap. 153.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25, chapter 126
of the Code of Virginia, as to the order in which debts shall be
paid. Approved March 3, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twenty-five, chapter one hundred and twenty-six of the Code,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 25. Where the assets of the decedent in the hands of his
personal representative, after the payment of funeral expenses,
charges of administration, claims for physicians’ fees for ser-
vices rendered during the last illness of the decedent, not
exceeding fifty dollars, and druggists’ accounts for articles
furnished during the same period, not exceeding the same
amount, are not sufficient for the satisfaction of all demands
against him, they shall be applied, first, to debts due to the
United States; secondly, taxes and levies assessed upon the
decedent previous to his death; thirdly, debts due as personal
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jepresentative, trustee for persons under disabilities, guardian
r committee, where the qualification was in this state, in
hich debts shall be included a debt for money received by a
usband acting as such fiduciary in right of his wife; fourthly,
ll other demands, ratably, except those in the next class; and,
ifthly, voluntary obligations.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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