Chap. 219.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4093 of the code, in rela-
tion to recognizances.

Approved February 1, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty hundred and ninety-three of the code be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 4093. How recognizances payable; penalty and condition; when
surety required; when dispensed with.—Recognizances in criminal
cases shall be payable to the commonwealth of Virginia. Every re-
cognizance 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 sueh 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 surety, as the court or officer
may direct, but in all other cases shall be with surety deemed suff-
cient by the court or officer taking it. In any such recognizance the
lability of the surety or sureties may be limited to such sum or sums as
they may respectively require. The condition, when it is taken of a
person charged with a criminal offence, shall be that he appear be-
fore the court, judge, or justice before whom the proceeding 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 is
charged ; and when it it is taken of a witness, in a 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 shall 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 officer requiring it may
direct; and, if euch court or officer direct, it may, when taken of a
person so charged, be with condition for so keeping the peace and be-
ing of good behavior in addition to the other conditions of his re-
cognizance.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.