Chap. 148.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section four of Chapter
One Hundred and Twenty-five of the Code of Eighteen Hundred and
Sixty, in Relation to the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children.

Approved March 8, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five of chapter one hundred and twenty-five of the
Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
= § 5. If the court shall adjudge the accused to be the father
of such bastard child it shall order him to pay to the overseers
of the poor of the county, or corporation, for the maintenance
of the said child, such sums as it may deem proper for each
year until such time as the court may appoint, unless it sooner
die. The court shall order the father to give a bond in such
penalty and with such sureties as it may deem sufficient for
the performance of the said order; and shall order him to
jail until such bond be given in court or filed in the clerk’s
office, or he shall otherwise be legally discharged.

2. Whenever a person is in jail in pursuance of the order of
the court, made by authority of the fifth section of chapter
one hundred and twenty-five in relation to the maintenance of
illegitimate children, on application to the court making the
order or to the judge of such court in vacation, such court or
the judge in vacation, if to such court or judge it shall ap-
pear proper, may order the person so in jail to give the bond
required by said section without surety, and on the execution
of said bond to be released from imprisonment: provided,
however, that in all such applications the attorney for the
commonwealth of the county or corporation shall have five
days’ notice of such application.

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