Chap. 230.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1402 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, approved March 28, 1902, in relation to suits by and against trustees.
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Approved March 15, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fourteen hundred and two of the Code of Virginia, as amend-
ed and re-enacted by an act approved March twenty-eight, nine-
teen hundred and two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 1402. The said trustees, and such as are mentioned in
section fourteen hundred and nine, may, in their own names, sue
for and recover any real or personal estate held by them respective-
ly in trust, or for damages for injury thereto, and be sued in re-
lation to the same. Such suit, notwithstanding the death of any of
the said trustees, or the appointment of others, shall proceed in
the names of the trustees by or against whom it was instituted.
And in any case where such trustees shall have given any deed of
trust, or encumbered such real or personal estate in any manner,
to secure any debt and such trustees have since died and such re-
ligious congregation or organization become extinct, or has ceased
to occupy said property, so that it may be regarded as abandoned
property, the beneficiary entitled to the debt secured by such deed
of trust, or encumbrance, may institute a chancery suit to subject
said estate to the payment of such lien in the circuit or corporation
court of the county or corporation in which said property, or the
greater part thereof is, against the members of such religious con-
gregation or organization as parties unknown, proceeding by order
of publication, as provided by chapter one hundred and fifty-eight.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.