Chap. 69.—An ACT to amend section 2536 of the Code of Virginia relating
to the probate of copy of wills, proved without the State; to what extent
admitted to probate, and validating the orders of the clerk of any court
admitting such wills to probate.

Approved March 1, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section two
thousand five hundred and thirty-six of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the probate of copy of will proved without the State; to what extent ad-
mitted to probate, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2536. Probate of copy of will proved without the State; to what ex-
tent admitted to probate——Where a will relative to an estate within this
State has been proved without the same, an authenticated copy thereof,
and the certificate of probate thereof may be offered for probate in this
State. When such copy is so offered, the court or the clerk thereof to
which it is offered shall presume, in the absence of evidence to the con-
trary, that the will was duly executed and admitted to probate as a will
of personalty in the State or country of the testator’s domicile, and shall
admit such copy to probate as a will of personalty in this State. And
if it appear from such copy that the will was proved in the foreign court
of probate to have been so executed as to be a valid will of lands in this
State by the law thereof, such copy may be admitted to probate as a will
of real estate. That the admission to probate of any such copy of a will
since the fifteenth day of May. nineteen hundred and three, by the clerk
of anv court in this State authorized to admit any such copy of a will
» probate is hereby validated, and the probate of any such copy of
fore any such clerk since said date shall have the same legal op
nd effect as if such copy had been admitted to probate by said cow
2. That because of the necessity that clerks of the courts of the
jonwealth should have the power to admit copies of wills to prob
rovided in the preceding section, and because of the fact under —
rehension of the law, many copies have been admitted to proba
‘ts of the clerks in such cases should be promptly validated, an
ency exists for the prompt passage of this act, and therefore i
ike effect from and after its passage..