Chap. 244.—-An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 12, Chapter 130 of
the Code of 1860, in Regard to Personal Representatives.

Approved March 29, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the twelfth section of chapter one hundred and thirty of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 12. Every court, by whose order any person is authorized
to act as a personal representative, shall, unless where a testa-
tor directs his estate not to be appraised, appoint three or more
appraisers in every county or corporation in which there may
be any goods or chattels of the deceased, or, in the case of a
will, in which there may be any real estate which the personal
representative is authorized to sell, or of which he is author-
ized to receive the rents and profits. After taking an oath for
the purpose, they shall appraise such goods or chattels as may
be produced to them, and also the said real estate. The ap-
praisers shall receive each, for their attendance, one dollar per
day; the appraisement shall be signed by them, and returned
to the commissioner of accounts of such court, who shall in-
spect the same, see that it is in proper form, and within ten
days after it is received and approved by him, deliver it to the
clerk of such court; and the said clerk shall record the same,
with the certificate of approval. The date of return of an ap-
praisement shall be entered by the said commissioner in his
record book. Every such appraisement shall be prima facie
evidence of the value of the estate embraced therein, and that
it came to the hands of the personal representative.”

2. This act shall be in force from the day of its passage.