Chap. 691.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2671 of the code of Virginis
in relation to commissioners of accounts, their appointments and duties.

Approved March 8, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
twenty-six hundred and seventy-one of the code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2671. Commissioners of accounts, their appointment and duties.
‘Record of fiduciaries’; what to be entered therein; duty of clerks;
penalty on commissioners and clerks for failure of duty.—The judge of
each court having jurisdiction of the probate of wills and granting ad-
miunistrations on estates of decedents, shall appoint a commissioner of
accounts, who shall be removable at pleasure, and who shall have a
general supervision of all fiduciaries admitted to qualify in said court,
and make all ex parte settlements of their accounts. The said commis-
sioner shall obtain from the clerk of his court within twenty days after
each term thereof a list of the fiduciaries authorized to act as such under
orders entered at the said term, and examine as to each fiduciary whether
he has given such bond as the Jaw requires; and, if it appear that he
has given no bond, or that his bond is defective, shall make report
thereof to his court at its next term. He shall enter in separate colunins
in a book to be kept by him and called the ‘‘Record of fiduciaries’’;
first, the name of every such fiduciary; second, the name of the dece-
dent for whose estate he is the representative; third, the name of the
living person for whom he is guardian, curator, or committee; fourth,
the penalty of his bond; fifth, the names of his sureties; sixth, the date
of the order conferring his authority; seventh, the date of any order re-
voking his authority; eighth, the date of the return of every inventory
of the estate; ninth, the date of each settlement of the accounts of such
fiduciary; and shall index the said book in the name of the decedent or
person represented by such fiduciary. The clerk of the court shall
certify to the said commissioner within twenty days after each term of
the court the revocation of the authority of every such fiduciary. Any
commissioner failing to make such entry, or any clerk to certify such
revocation for ten days after the time herein prescribed, shall for every
such failure forfeit twenty dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.