CHAPTER 426

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 26-37 of the Code of 1950, so as to
allow clerks of court to destroy certain papers under certain

conditions.
[S 239]

Approved April 6, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 26-87 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 26-37. Disposition of vouchers or other evidence.—All
vouchers or other evidence filed with commissioner, the court or
the clerk at the time of confirmation of an account, and not re-
quired as evidence of any further matter of inquiry pending before
the court or the commissioner, shall upon request be returned by
the commissioner or by the clerk of the court to the person who filed
the same.

The clerk of court, with the approval of the court, by an order
duly entered may destroy vouchers, copies of settlements and
copies of other papers relating to estates, when the matter con-
cerned has been closed with final settlement for more than five
years and appropriate recordations have. been made.