Chap. 383.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1053 of the Code of
Virginia. {H B &]
Approved March 24, 1922.

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

Sec. 1053. Bond of committee; judge may appoint in vacation ;
when sheriff or sergeant made committee—The court making such
appointment shall take from such committee a bond in such penalty
and with such surety as it may deem sufficient; and where a person
is found insane under the provisions of section ten hundred and fifty.
the judge of the circuit court of the county or corporation court of
the city of which he is an inhabitant, in vacation, as well as such
court, may appoint a committee for him, and any committee so ap-
pointed shall be required to give a bond in such penalty and with
such surety as such court or judge may deem sufficient. If any per-
son appointed committee of an insane person refuse the trust or fail
to give bond as aforesaid within two months from the date of his
appointment, or if no person be appointed a committee within one
month from the adjudication, the court, or the judge thereof, in vaca-
tion, on motion of any person interested, may appoint some other
person committee, taking from such committee bond as aforesaid, or
shall commit the estate of the insane person to the sheriff of the
county or sergeant of the city of which he is an inhabitant, who
shall be the committee, and he and the sureties in his official bond
shall be bound for the faithful performance of the trust. The pro-
visions of this chapter as to the appointment of committees of insane
persons shall apply to the appointment of committees of epileptics,
feeble-minded persons and idiots.