HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 643

other depository wherein said securities or investments are
held for safekeeping or to an authorized representative of the
corporation which is surety on his bond, or to the judge or clerk
of a court of record in this State, or upon request of the guar-
dian or other interested party, to any other reputable person
designated by the court, who shall certify in writing that he
has examined the securities or investments and identified them
with those described in the account and shall note any omis-
sion or discrepancies. If the depository is the guardian, the
certifying officer shall not be the officer verifying the account.
The guardian may exhibit the securities or investments to the
judge of the court, who shall endorse on the account and copy
thereof, a certificate that the securities or investments shown
therein as held by the guardian were each in fact exhibited to
him and that those exhibited to him were the same as those
in the account and noting any omission or discrepancy. The
certificate, and the certificate of an official of the bank in which
are deposited any funds for which the guardian is accountable,
showing the amount on deposit, shall be prepared and signed
in duplicate and one of each shall be filed by the guardian
with his account.

(C) At the time of filing in the court any account, a cer-
tified copy thereof and a signed duplicate of each certificate
filed with the court shall be sent by the guardian to the office
of the Veterans Administration having jurisdiction over the
area in which such court is located. A duplicate signed copy
or a certified copy of any petition, motion or other pleading
pertaining to an account, or to any matter other than an ac-
count, and which is filed in the guardianship proceedings or
in any proceedings for the purpose of removing the disability
of minority or mental incapacity, shall be furnished by the
persons filing the same to the proper office of the Veterans
Administration. Unless hearing be waived in writing by the
attorney of the Veterans Administration and by all other per-
sons, if any, entitled to notice, the court shall fix a time and
place for the hearing on the account, petition, motion or other
pleading, not less than fifteen days nor more than thirty days
from the date same is filed, unless a different available date
be stipulated in writing. Unless waived in writing, written
notice of the time and place of hearing shall be given the Vet-
erans Administration office concerned and to the guardian
and any others entitled to notice, not less than fifteen days
prior to the date fixed for the hearing. The notice may be
given by mail, in which event it shall be deposited in the mails
not less than fifteen days prior to said date. The court or clerk
thereof, shall mail to said Veterans Administration office a
copy of each order entered in any guardianship proceeding
wherein the Administrator is an interested party.