Chap. 822.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4093, code of Virginia, in
regard to recognizances.

Approved March 3, 1898,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section four
thousand and ninety- three of the code be amended and re-enacted go as
to read as follows:

§ 4093. How reengnizances payable; penalty and condition; when
surety required; when dispensed with; what order of court to state.—
Recognizances in criminal cases shall be pavable to the commonwealth
of Virginia. Every recognizance under this chapter, or under chapter
one hundred and ninety-one and the chapters following to one hundred
and ninety-nine, inclusive, shall be in such sum as the court or officer
requiring it may direct. If it be to answer for a misdemeanor, or if

required of a witness, it shall be with or without security, as the court or
oflicer may direct; but in all other eases shall be with security deemed
suthicient by the court or officer taking it. The condition, when it is
taken, of a person charged with a criminal offence, shall be that he ap-
pear before the court, judge or justice before whom the proceedings on
such charge will be at such time as may be prescribed by the court or
officer taking it to answer for the offence with which such person 1s
charged, and when it is taken of a witness ina case against any such
person, shall be that he so appear to give evidence on such charge, and
in either case shall be that the person or witness shall not depart thence
without the leave of said court, Judge or justice, when taken for any other
purpose than to appear so to answer or give evidence, it shMll be with
condition that the person of whom it is taken shall keep the peace and
be of good behavior for such time, not exceeding one year, as the court
or oflicer requiring it may direct; and if such court or officer direct, it
may, when taken of a person so charged, be with condition for so keep-
ing the peace and being of good behavior, in addition to the other con-
ditions of lis recognizanee. lad when such recoquizance is taken by a
court of a person to ansiver a charge, or of a awitness to give evidence, it shall
be sufficient for the order of the court taking said recognizance to state that the
purty, or parties recognized, were duly recognized, in such sum as the court
may have directed, with such surety as the court may hare accepted for his or
their appearance before such courtat such time as may hare been prescribed by
the court to answer for the offence wth which sich person vw charged, or to qice
eridcnee, as the case nay be.