Chap. 220.—An ACT to expedite the execution of the will of Lawson
Nunnally, deceased.

Approved March 29, 1877.

Whereas it is represented that Lawson Nunnally, late of
the city of Richmond, Virginia, departed this life possessed
of aconsiderable estate, which he divided among many leg-
atees, and that though his executor qualified nearly twelve
months ago, no considerable debts or demands have appeared
against his estate, and none, which have appeared remain
unsatisfied, and yet, that many of the objects of his bounty
are unable to give refunding bonds, with sufficient security,
43 the law requires, that they may receive their legacies, at
the end of the year from the date of the order cenferring au.
thority on his executor; and it would be a serious incon-
venience to them, in their necessitous condition, to await the
lapse of two years from that date, before which they cannot
expect, according to the provisions of the Oode of Virginia,
to receive their legacies, without such refunding bonds; now
therefore, .

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
when a report of the accounts of the executor of Lawson
Nunnally, deceased, and of the debts and demands against
the estate of Lawson Nunnally, deceased, shall have been
filed in the office of the chancery court of the city of Rich-
mond, whether under chapter one hundred and twenty-eight
uf the Code of Virginia, known as the Code of eighteen bun-
dred and seventy-three, or in a suit in chancery, the said
court, after one year from the qualification uf the said execu-
tor of the said Lawson Nunnally, may, in its discretion, on
the motion of a legatee of the said Lawson Nunnally, make
an order for his creditors to show cause, on some day to be
named 10 the order, against the payment and delivery of his
estate to his legatees; a copy of which order shall be pub-
lished once a week for four weeks, in one or more newspa-
pers, as the court may direct; and be posted at the door of
the court-house of the hustings court of the city of Richmond,
on the first day of two successive terms of said hustings court.
On or after the day named in the order, the court may order
the payment and delivery to the legatees of the whole ora
part of the money and other estate, not before distributed,
with or without refunding bonds, as it may prescribe. But
every legatee to whom any such payment is made, and his
representatives may, ina suit brought against him, withio
ten years afterwards, be adjudged to refund a due propor-
tion of any debts or demands appearing against the decedent,
and of the costs attending their recovery.

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