Chap. 67.—An ACT to amend and re-enact seetion 7, chapter P47,
Code of 1873, tn relation to warrants for small claims.

Approved Febritary 1, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section seven
of chapter one hundred and forty-seven, Code of Virginia, edi-
tion of eighteen lundred and seventy-three, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$7. If a judgment of a justice of the peace be for a sum
execeding ten, and not exceeding twenty dollars, exclusive of
interest and costs, the justice rendering it may stay execution
on it forty days froin its date; if the judgement be for a sum
exceeding twenty. and not exceeding thirty dollars, he may
stay execution on it sixty days from its date; if the judgment
be for a sum exceeding thirty dollars, he may stay execution
on it ninety days from its date, on snch securities being given
in either case for its payment as he may deem sufficient. From
any judgment rendered hy a justice in any case of which he has
jurisdiction, the justice rendering it may within ten days, on
such securities being given as he approves, for the payment of
the same, and all costs and damages (if it be affirnied), allow an
appeal where the case involves the constitutionality or validity
of an ordinance or by-law of a corporation, or where the matter
in controversy exclusive of interest is of greater amount or value
than ten dollars. ‘The verbal acknowledgement of any surety
taken under this section shall be sufficient, and the endorse-
ment by the justice of the name of the surety upon the warrant
on which the judgment is rendered shall be conclusive evidence
of such acknowledgment. The court in which the appeal is
cognizable may on motion, for good cause shown, require the
appellant to give new or additional security, reasonable notice
of such motion having been given to said appellant, and if he
fail to give such security, the appeal shall be dismissed with costs,
and the court shall award execution on the judgement rendered
by the justice, with costs against the appellant and his surety.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.