Chap. 706.—An ACT to require the return of distress warrants and to provide for
process of sale thereunder when necessary.

Approved March 3, 1698.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
the duty of each officer, who under the present law may execute war-
rants of distress, except where it is otherwise provided by law, to make
return of his action and proccedings upon such warrants as may he
placed in his hands for collection, and file the same with the clerk of the
county or hustings court of his county or city, as the case may be,
within sixty days after the same may have come to his hands.

2. Upon the return of such warrant it shall be the duty of such clerk
to enter the same upon the execution book of his office after the manner
as now provided by law as to executions issued by justices and returned
unsatisfied, and the said clerk shall preserve such warrant in his office
as is now provided as to such unsatisfied executions.

3. If such return shall show that a levy has been made and that
property levied on remains unsold it shall be lawful for the said clerk
of the county or hustings court, as the case may he, in whose office such
return is filed, to issue a writ of rendition? erponas thereon, just as if the said
return were upon a writ of fiert facias.

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