Chap. 603.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2945 and 2919 of the code
relating to warrants for small claims.

Approved March 1, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
twenty-nine hundred and forty-five and twentvy- nine hundred and forty-
nine, chapter one hundred and forty, code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows :

§ 2945. The justice rendering any such judgment shall certify and
deliver an abstract thereof, at any time during his continuance in office,
to any person interested therein who may desire to have the came
docketed : provided, if the justice rendering said qudqment be absent from his
county or corporation, or his office be vacant, such abstract | of judgment MuULY
he made and certified by his successor in oftive, or any other justice of the

county or corporations ls
§ 2949. A writ of fieri facias issued by a justice may he directed to any
constable, and be executed by him in any part of his county or corpora-
tion, or may be directed to the sheriff or sergeant of any county or corpora-
tion, but in any case shall be returnable in sixty days. If not wholly
satisfied it may, within one year from the date of the judgment be
returned to and renewed by a Justice, notwithstanding the provisions of
chapter thirty-nine. But every execution issued by a justice, which is
not so returned and renewed, shall be returned by the officer to the
clerks of the court of the county or corporation in which the execution
issued. The said justice shall also return to the said office an abstract of the
judgment in each case tried by him together with all of the papers tn the
CASE.

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