foreign~exeolrtor for the prolateo? suchwill, the sams shallbe adxa%tfedtoprobaOe;and letter8testamentaryshall be grantedto suoh applioantand an order to that e?feot shsll be entersdupoa the shautes of the uourt as in other oases; and if lettersof adzainietrationhave been prdoue4 grantsdby suoh osurt in this State to sny person otherthan 8uoh foreignexeoutor,suoh letters shall bs revokedupon tha applioationof euoh executor Peter servioe of oitationupon the personto wham suoh letterswere gimntodas requiredin other oases.I
Article 8646,I&vised Civil Statutes,reads as follows:
'In the sass providedPar in the precedingartiole,the exeoutdrShall be requiredto give bond as in other oases,notxithstmndiag anypravision to the ooataaq ia the will, and the ardor revoking the ?onaer lettersshall not take effectuntil sueh exsoutorhas quaIlPiedin fooordanoewith law. -. -
Afr.H. J.Miller,pageS (0-8ll)
The term %xeoutorn used in Utiole 3926, supra,refers to an exooutoradministering the estate of a testatorunder the oontrolof the pro- bate oourt. Cona~quently, the judge is not satitledto the statukmy fee Share the estatewas adminiSteRIdby an indepsndsnt&seoutoror by a oonrmm- 19 survivor. In &iS oonneotion,it has been held that the judge is entit- led to a oomxLssionupon money reoeivedby a personalrepresentative in the fal?illmeI&of a road oonstruotionsoatraotofthe dsoeased,a-n thoughmost o? the mossy subsequentlywas disbursedbythe representative.But it is establishedthat the term 'receipts"as used inthe statutedoes not embraoe sash on depositin bank8 at the time of the death a? the testator. %x. Jur. Vol. 26, page 2603 Goodwb ~8. Dowus, 280 SW 512; Hillisw. Harmy, 26 8H 2nd 288.
lb quote from the oase of Goodwinvs.,Dows, supra,a8 follows:
'Ihe oowrty judge has only one 8g to receive9qg compensationfor his super- vision of an administration.Eis r8spoa8ibility is great. He must study the reports8nd approvetheaooounts, inoludingreoeiptsSnd diSbWStrmsX&S.Ihe Imgislatwe ?imsd this defimitsmethod o? acanputiag hisfees. It will not be astmmsdthBtthsLugiSlatursintandedto do anuna%asonal.iie oralmurd thing. Fmtvs see no rsason ts maend or limit this articleupSneither o? suohm theses. There 18 moth.@ in the hiStOryOf this aot (the 00U-t IS s@aking of Art. 3860, B.C.& 1911 &ioh is a&&t. 9926, B.C.8.)vhiob sh&rs that the Legislaturehad8myaroepti~ inmind. Ikarenotoalledup~ntosay that no exoeptionly &%s?truotiondll allbs raaditltothisartiolebythe oourte. Usdonotssy SO. 2ut*s do saythatthe asurfsfoundthat itmasto %e be& iatnrestof ths e&ate in thisoase,inwindipg it up, to exeouteMndingoom- tract8ml&oh the deoeasedbad 8lreadymade in his lifetime. In doing so, sash reaeiptsaatural4ocepleintothe haads 0ftheadminWtrator.
'. . .Hs see no reason for not allomlngthe'ooum~ judge what l&s statutein olear aad urm&stakablelanguagsgives him. Ha do not belisveit is in -se unrea80nable.w
,In the ease of Von Bwnnsrits vs. Zillar,246 2W42S, it was held in effsot that tiere one oP twcindepaadantexeoutorsof a vill,who was also a residuarylegatee,advaWsdmoneyto Ihe attorneyfor the exSoutsr,which was paid out s? the legaciessmd debts of the estate,th6'Otherexesutorwas entitledto oammissionsthemon, the 88me a8 though Such money had b8en ?urn- ishsd by the third party* being money reoeiwd by the exeoutors.
The questionariseswhetheror not the executormentionedin your inquiryis an independentexeautor. We are of the opinionthat the ereoator mentionedis not aa iadependsmtsx8outorr W& quote ?rcasTexas Jurisprudenoe, Vol. 13, page 765, as follows:
*In order to create an iadenpandentadministration it is n&t neewsary that the testatoroonferextraordinary powersupon the exeoutortthe