26-9 - Report on fiduciaries' bonds; "record of fiduciaries.".
§ 26-9. Report on fiduciaries' bonds; "record of fiduciaries.".
The clerk of each such court shall furnish his commissioner or commissionersof accounts at the end of each month a list of the fiduciaries authorized toact as such under orders entered during that month and examine as to eachfiduciary whether he has given such bond as the law requires, and if itappear that he has given no bond or that his bond is defective shall reportsuch fact to his court forthwith.
The commissioner or commissioners of accounts shall enter in separate columnsin a book or other proper record to be kept by him and called the "record offiduciaries":
(1) The name of every such fiduciary;
(2) The name of the decedent whose estate he represents or the name of theliving person for whom he is acting in fiduciary capacity;
(3) The penalty of his bond;
(4) The names of his sureties;
(5) The date of the order conferring his authority;
(6) The date of any order revoking his authority;
(7) The date of the return of every inventory of the estate; and
(8) The date of each settlement of the accounts of the fiduciary.
The commissioner or commissioners of accounts shall index the book or otherproper record in the name of the decedent or person represented by thefiduciary.
The clerk of the court shall certify to the commissioner or commissionerswithin ten days the revocation of the authority of every such fiduciary.
Any commissioner failing to make such entry or any clerk failing to certifysuch revocation for ten days after the time herein prescribed shall for everysuch failure forfeit twenty dollars.
(Code 1919, § 5401; 1946, p. 324; 1956, c. 59; 1973, c. 544.)