Chap. 398.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4998 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to appointment of committees for persons convicted of
telony. [S B 169]

Approved April 1, 1938
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section

forty-nine hundred and ninety-eight of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 4998. Appointment of Committee of Convict’s Estate.—
When a person is convicted of a felony and sentenced to confinement
in the penitentiary or to the State convict road force for one year or
more his estate, both real and personal, if any he has, shall, on motion
of any party interested, be committed by the circuit or corporation
court of the county or city in which his estate, or some part thereof
is, to a person selected by the court, who after giving bond before
the said court, in such penalty as it may prescribe, shall have charge
of said estate until the convict is discharged from confinement; pro-
vided, that if such person so convicted and sentenced be a non-resident
of Virginia and have no property or estate in this State, a committee
shall be appointed for him, on motion of any party interested, by the
circuit court of the county or the corporation or other court having
probate jurisdiction in the county or city wherein the offense was com-
mitted, such committee, when so appointed, to be subject to the pro-
visions of section forty-nine hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of
Virginia, so far as applicable.