CHAP. 179.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3397 of the Code of
Virginia, in relation to special commissioners of sale.

Approved March 11, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-three hundred and ninety-seven of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the appointment of special commissioners of
sale, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

§3397. A court, in a suit properly therein, may make a decree
or order for the sale of property in any part of the State, and may
direct the sale to be for cash, or on such credit and terms as it
may deem best, and it may appoint one or more special commis-
sioners to make such sale. No special commissioners, appointed
by a court, shall receive money under a decree or order, until he
gives bond, before the said court or its clerk in a penalty to be
prescribed by the court: but no one not a resident of the State of
virginia shall be appointed a special commissioner to make such
Sale.