Chap. 9.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 58 of the
Acts of 1889 and 1890, approved February 11, 1890, as amended by an
act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to provide for the appoint-
ment of assistant commissioners of accounts and to define their duties
and powers.

Approved January 30, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of chapter fifty-eight of the Acts of eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, approved
February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by
chapter five hundred and sixty-seven of the Acts of eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, approved March
fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act to provide for the appoint-
ment of assistant commissioners of accounts, and to define their
duties and powers, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the judge of each court in this State having jurisdiction of
the probate of wills and granting administrations on estates
of decedents may, either in term or in vacation, appoint, in addi-
tion to the commissioner of accounts, an assistant commissioner
of accounts, who shall perform all the duties and exercise all of
the powers required of the commissioner of accounts in all cases
in which the commissioner of accounts from any cause is so
situated that he cannot perform the duties of his office, or in
which the commissioner of accounts is of opinion it is improper
for him to act. An asgistant commissioner of accounts making
a settlement of a fiduciary account under the provisions of this
act shall, within thirty days, report the fact and date of such
settlement to the commissioner of accounts, who shall make an
entry of the same in his record book.

2. An emergency existing in that some commissioners of
accounts are so situated that they cannot perform the duties of
their office in certain cases, this act shall be in force from its
passage.