Chap. 957.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2674 of the code of Virginia
providing for the returns of accounts of sales of fiduciaries, their duty and
penalty on trustees for failure to make returns of sale.

Approved March 4, 1898.

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

S$ 2674. When and by whom accounts of sales returned to them; their
duty; penalty on trustees for fai Every such fiduciary shall, within
four months after selling any property as such, return to the said com-
missioner an account of such sale; and when sale ig made under any
deed of trust otherwise than under a decree, there shall, within four
months after the sale be returned by the trustees to the commissioner of
accounts of the court wherein said deed may have been first recorded, an
inventory of the property sold and an account of sale. The commis-
sioner shall inspect the same, see that it is made out in proper form and
deliver it to the clerk to be recorded as herein directed in regard to in-
ventories. Any trustee failing to comply with this section shall forfeit
his commission on such sales, unless these commissions shall he allowed by
the court.

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