Chap. 371.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6296 of the Code of Vir-
ginia of 1919, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section 3418 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the appointment of com-
missioners to execute deeds, approved March 16, 1918. [H B 396]

Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixty-two hundred and ninety-six of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 6296. Court may appoint commissioners to execute a deed
of writing; effect of such deed, and so forth—A court of equity in
a suit wherein it is proper to decree or order the execution of any
deed or writing, may appoint a commissioner to execlite the same;
and the execution thereof shall be as valid to pass, release, or ex-
tinguish the right, title and interest of the party on whose behalf it
is 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 practicable the name or names of the person or
persons on whose behalf the same is executed; provided, that when
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. But a
failure to comply with the provisions of this paragraph shall not
affect or invalidate any such deed; and all deeds heretofore executed
by any such commissioner in which such persons or heirs are not
specifically set out are hereby validated.

Z. An act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section thirty-four
hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia in regard to the ap-
pointment of commissioners to execute. deeds, approved March six-
teenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby repealed.