Chap. 285.—An ACT to provide that no non-resident of this State shall be ap-
pointed or allowed to qualify as personal representative, guardian or com-
mittee ot a resident decedent, infant or person non compos mentis, unless there
be appointed also a resident personal representative, guardian or committee.

[S B 211]
Approved March 15, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no person
not a resident of this State nor any corporation not authorized to do
business in this State shall be appointed or allowed to qualify as per-
sonal representative of any decedent, if at the time of his death such
decedent was a resident of this State, or appointed as guardian of an
infant or committee of any person non compos mentis, if at the time
of the application for such appointment the infant or person non compos
mentis be a resident of this State, unless there be also appointed to
serve with the non-resident personal representative, guardian or com-
mittee, a person resident in this State or corporation authorized to do
business in this State; provided, however, that when the non-resident
guardian or committee is the parent of the infant or person non compos
mentis, the resident guardian appointed under this act shall have no
control over the person of the ward. Nothing in this act shall be
construed toimpair the validity of any appointment or qualification
antedating the taking effect of this act, nor to affect in any way the
provisions of chapter two hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia,
which chapter relates to the transfer of property in this State belonging
to decedents, wards, insane persons or beneficiaries in another State or
country.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.