Chap. 473.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3001 of the code of Virginia,
in relation to indemnifying bonds to officers, their penalties and conditions.

Approved February 24, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand and one of the code of Virginia, in relation to indemni.
fying bonds to officers, their penalties and conditions, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3001. If any officer levies or is required to levy an execution or 2
warrant of distress on property, or to attach money or property under
un attachment issued either by a justice or by the clerk of any court,
and a doubt shall arise whether the said money or property is liable tc
such levy or attachment, he may give the plaintiff, his agent or attorney
at law notice that an indemnifying bond is required in the case; bonc
may thereupon be given by any person, with good security, payable tc
the officer, in a penalty equal to double the value of the property, with
condition to indemnify him against all damage which he may sustair
in consequence of the seizure or sale of said property, and to pay to any
claimant of such property all damage which he may sustain in conse
quence of such seizure or sale, and also to warrant and defend to an}
purchaser of the property such estate or interest therein as is sold: pro:
vided, however, that when the property claimed to be liable by virtu:

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vf the process aforesaid is in the possession of any of the parties against
whom such process was issued, but is claimed by any other person or
persons, or is claimed to belong to any other person or persons, the off-
cer having such process in his hands to be executed shall proceed to
execute the same, notwithstanding such claim, unless the claimant of
sald property, or some one fur him, shall give a suspending bond as pro-
vided by section three thousand and three of the code of Virginia, and
shall, within thirty days after such bond is given, proceed to have the title
to said property settled in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
And in case such claimant, or some one for him, fails to give such
bond, or having given such bond fails to have such proceedings insti-
tuted as aforesaid to settle the title thereto, said property shall be con-
clusively presumed to be the property of the party in possession, and
the officer who executes such process shall not be liable to any such
cluimant for any damages resulting from the proper execution of such
process as is required by this section.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.