Chap. 262.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3418 of the Code of Vir-
ginja in regard to the appointment of commissioners to execute deeds.
{H B 70)
Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-four hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows::

Section 3418. Court may appoint commissioner to execute a
deed of writing; effect of such deed, and so -forthA_ court in
equity in a suit wherein it is proper to decree or order the execu-
tion of any deed or writing, may appoint a commissioner to exe-
cute the same; and the execution thereof shall be as valid to pass,
release, or extinguish the right, title, and interest of the party on
whose behalf it 1s executed as if such party had been at the time
capable in law of executing the same, and had executed it. Every
deed executed by any such commissioner shall specifically set out
as nearly as may be practicable the name or names of the person or
persons on whose behalf the same is executed; provided, that when
any such deed conveys the right, title, or interest of the heirs of a
person who is dead, it shall be sufficient. for such deed to set out
that the same is executed on behalf of the heirs of such decedent.