Chap. 107.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to regulate
the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents,
and appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, cura-
tors, committees, by the clerks of circuit courts,” approved May 15, 1903.

Approved March 12, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of
appraisers of the estate of decedents, and appointment and qualifica-
tion of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees, by the
clerks of circuit courts, approved May fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. The clerk of any circuit or corporation court may appoint ap-
praisers of estates of decedents, admit wills to probate, appomt, and
qualify executors, administrators, curators of decedents and committees,
and require and take from them the necessary bonds in the same manner
and with like effect as the court could do if in session. Such powers and
duties may be exercised and discharged as well during the sessions of
the court as at other times: provided, that in the city of Richmond the
clerk of the chancery court of said city shall have such powers and per-
form such duties.

3. Such clerk shall keep an order book, in which shall be entered all
orders made by him respecting the subjects aforesaid. Any person in-
terested may, within one year after the entering of such an order, appeal
therefrom as a matter of right, upon giving bond as provided by law,
to the court whose clerk has made the order. Upon application being
made for such appeal, the said clerk shall enter forthwith in his order
book an order allowing such appeal, and docket the same as a preferred
cause for trial at the next term of the court. The said court, at any
term, shall hear and determine the matter as though it had been pre-
sented to the said court in the first instance, and shall cause a copy of
the order on the order book of the court embracing its final action to
be copied by the clerk into his order book. At any time after such ap-
peal is allowed the said court, or the*%judge thereof in vacation, may
make any such order for the protection of the parties interested or for
the protection or preservation of any property involved as might have
been made had the matter been originally presented to the court, or as
may seem needful.

4, In view of the fact the circuit court system under Constitution is
in effect on and after the first day of February, nineteen hundred and
four, this act is declared to be an emergency act, and shall be im effect
from its passage.