Chap. 162.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section one of an Act Enti-
tled ‘‘ An Act to Prevent the Sacritice of Personal Property at Forced

Sales,” Approved May 23, 1870, so as to Extend the time for the Opera-
tion of said Act.

In force March 19, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled “an act to prevent the sacrifice of
personal property at forced sales,” approved May twenty-eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

1. That hereafter, and until the first day of April, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, in all cases of sales of personal pro-
perty levied on under judgments, warrants or decrees upon
obligations, liabilities, or debts which were contracted or in-
curred prior to the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, the sheriff or other officer making said sales, shall,
when so required by the defendant, his avent or attorney, at
any time before the sale, sell the said personal property upon &
credit of twelve months, except as to costs and the expenses of
sale, which may be required in cash, taking from the purchasers
bonds, with sufficient security, for the balance of the purchase
money. The purchasers shall give their said bonds payable to
the plaintiff: provided, that for any excess of purchase money
over and above the claim of said plaintiff the said bonds shall
be made payable to defendant, whenever the property is sold
under more than one process, the bonds made payable to the re-
spective plaintifis, shall be given according to. their respective
rights and priorities. All of the said bonds, when so taken,
shall be returned within twenty-days after the day of sale by
the officer making the sale, along with the execution or other
process, under which the sale was made, in the same manner as a
fortheoming bond is now required to be returned.

2. The clerk shall endorse on said bonds the date of their
return from and after which time they shall have, as against
the obligors therein then living, the force of a judgement, but
no exectition shall issue thereon, except that the said bonds
shall at their maturity, if still unpaid, have, in all other respects,
the force and effect of a forfeited forthcoming bond, and pro-
ceedings thereon shall be had upon the same notice and i in the
same manner as heretofore provided by law in reference to for-
feited forthcoming bonds. Such of said bonds as are made
payable to the plaintiff may be paid to him or his assignee, or
avent or attorney, or personal representative, whenever in the
presence of the clerk, to whose office the said bonds are re-
turned, the amount so paid is endorsed by the plaintiff, his as-
signee or his agent or attorney or personal representative, as a
credit on the process under which the sale was made.

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