Chap. 168.—An ACT to amend and re- enact section 5403 of the Code of Virginia,

relating to the return by fiduciaries of inventories of personal property and
real estate. [H B 269]
Approved March 22, 1932

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

Section 5403. Every personal representative, guardian, curator,
or committee, shall, within four months after the date of the order
conferring his authority, return to the said commissioner, in proper
form, an inventory of all the personal and real estate which has come
to his possession or knowledge, or which is under his management
or subject to his authority in his fiduciary character; and shall, within
four months after any other such estate shall come to his possession
or knowledge, return to the said commissioner a further inventory
thereof. If he fail to make the return herein first mentioned, the
commissioner shall issue, through the sheriff or other proper officer,
a summons to such fiduciary, requiring him to make such return; and
if said return be not made within thirty days after the date of service
of the summons, the commissioner shall report the fact to his court.
The court shall immediately thereupon order a summons to the fidu-
Clary, requiring him to appear; and upon his appearing unless excused
for sufficient reason, he shall be fined by the court in a sum not less
than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. And if the said fidu-
ciary still fail to make such return within such time as the court may
prescribe, he shall be deemed guilty of contempt of court, and be
dealt with accordingly. The said commissioner shall inspect all in-
ventories returned to him by fiduciaries, see that they are in proper
form, and, within ten days after they are respectively received and
approved by him, deliver them to the clerk of the court, to be re-
corded as required by law. An appraisement made, according to
chapter two hundred and nineteen, shall be considered such an in-
ventory as is required in this section, if it be signed by the personal
representative. ,