Chap. 815.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved
December 19, 1893, entitled an act to change the name of the Virginia safe
deposit and fidelity company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 9
of an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia
safe deposit and fidelity company, and also to amend and re-enact sections
2, 3, 5, and 15 of an act approved January 19, 1892, entitled an act to
amend sections 2, 3, 5, 11, and 15 of an act to incorporate the Virginia safe
deposit and fidelity company, approved March 4, 1890, and also to amend
and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 4, 1890, entitled an act
to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and also to
amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 19, 1892, entitled
an act to amend sections 2, 3, 6, 11, and 15 of an act to incorporate the
Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, approved March 4, 1890.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five of an act approved December the nineteenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-three, entitled an act to change the name of the Virginia
safe deposit and fidelity company, and to amend and re-enact sections
one and nine of an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and
fidelity company, and also to amend and re-enact sections two, three,
five, and fifteen of an act approved January the nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to amend sections two, three,
five, eleven, and fifteen of an act to incorporate the Virginia safe
deposit and fidelity company, approved March the fourth, eighteen
hundred and nincty, and that section eight of an act approved March
the fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to incorporate
the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity company, and that section eleven
of an act approved January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
two, entitled an act to amend sections two, three, five, eleven, and
fifteen of an act to incorporate the Virginia safe deposit and fidelity
company, approved March the fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
be, and the said sections are hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

S 5. That in all cases where an application may be made to any
court having jurisdiction to appoint a curator, guardian of an infant,
committee of an idiot or insane person, administrator of any person dying
testate or intestate, trustee, receiver, or special commissioner, such
court shall have power to appoint said company as such curator, guar-
dian, committee, administrator, trustee, receiver, or special commis-
sioner, upon the like application that any natural person might be so
appointed; and it shall be lawful for any person by deed, will, or other
writing, to appoint said company a trustee, executor, guardian, assignee.
or receiver; and as such executor, guardian of an infant, committee of
an idiot or insane person, administrator, curator, trustee, executor,
assignee, recciver, or special commissioner, the said company may law-
fully act; and as such, shall be subject to all the obligations and liabili-
ties of natural persons acting in like capacities. Whenever an oath is
required upon qualification in any office or position of trust mentioned
in this act, or whenever it is necessary for the said company to give
a bond, such oath may be made or such bond may be given by an officer
or authorized agent of the said company.

§ 8. That every court wherein said company shall be appointed: or
shall be allowed to qualify as guardian, committee, executor, adminis-
trator, trustee, receiver, curator or special commissioner, or in which
it is made the depository of moneys or other valuables, shall have power
to make all orders and compel obedience thereto, and require said com-
pany to render all accounts which such court might lawfully make or
require if such company was a natural person.

§ 11. That the said company shall be, and is hereby, authorized and
empowered to insure the fidelity of persons holding places of trust or
responsibility, or of any corporation, company, person or persons what-
soever; to endorse for, and to enter security, or become the security for
the faithful performance of any trust, duty, contract, or agreement; to
go upon any bond or appeal, or to go upon any injunction, attachment,
or other bond required by law of any person; and in every such case the
capital stock of the said company shall be taken and considered as
eufficient security therefor: provided, on examination of the officers and
affairs of the said company, or otherwise, the court shall be satisfied
of the sufficiency of said company, and its property and effects shall be
liable as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the said company to stipu-
late and provide for indemnity from the parties aforesaid for whom it
shall so become responsible and to enforce any bond, contract, agree-
ment, pledge or security made or given for that purpose. And this
company is hereby authorized to become surety for the faithful perform-
ance by any public officer of the duties of his office, and may become
surety on the bonds of all fiduciaries, and may take indemnity avainst
liability on all such bonds.

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