Chap. 117.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 165, Acts 1883-’4,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 14 of chapter
41 of Code of Virginia, 1873, in relation to writs of fieri facias and
capias pro fine on judgments in favor of the Commonwealth, ap-
proved February 25, 1884.

Approved February 12, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
séction fourteen of chapter one hundred and sixty-five of Acts
of eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighty-four, entitled
an act to amend and re-enact sections thirteen and fourteen of
chapter forty-one of Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, in relation to writs of fieri facias and capias pro
fine on judgments in favor of the commonwealth, be amended
and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

. $14. If such writ of fieri facias be returned to the clerk’s
office from which it is issued, unsatisfied in whole or in part,
the clerk shall, within five days after the next succeeding term
of his court, issue a capias pro fine against the defendant or
defendants in each judgment, and cause the same to be placed,
without delay, in the hands of the sheriff, or any constable of
the county or corporation wherein such defendant resides or
may be found, unless the attorney for the commonwealth, with
the consent of the judge of such court, entered of record, for
good cause, direct that such capias pro fine do not issue; and.
for any failure of the clerk or attorney for the commonwealth
of any court, to perform the duties imposed upon him under
this or the preceding section of this chapter, without good
cause, he shall forfeit twenty dollars. On every such judg-
ment, if no particular directions be given by such attorney, the
clerk of the court shall, immediately after the term at which it
is rendered, issue a writ of fieri facias. The court, or judge
thereof in vacation, may at any time direct a capias pro fine
to be issued.

- 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.