CHAP. 185.—An ACT to provide for the reeordetion of names of the heirs
of a person dying intestate.

Approved March 18, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of all personal representatives, whose de-
cedents have died intestate, to file in the clerk’s office of the
court in which thev receive their appointment at the time said
appointment is made a list containing the names and so far as
possible the ages and addresses of the heirs of each person for
whose estate thev are so appointed; to which statement shall be
attached the aftidavit of such personal representative that said
list is believed by afhant to be true.

2. It shall be the duty of the clerk of each court in which
such certificates are filed to record such certificates in the deed
books, and index them in the name of the decedent as grantor and
the names of the heirs as grantees. The cost of recording this
list shall be paid by the estate.

3. Such list, so made and filed, shall be taken as prima facie
evidence of the facts required to be therein stated.

4. Be it further enacted, that no personal representative shall
be allowed commissions on an estate until said list is filed and
a receipted bill from the clerk for recording same is filed with
the vouchers in his settlement. unless he files an affidavit, stat-
ing that the heirs of such decedent are to aftiant unknown.