Chap. 275.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 726 of the code of Virgini:
so as to authorize the county court to commit party when judgment «
mayor affirmed.

Approved February 5, 1900. f

Court may commit defendant until fine and costs are paid, or orde
capias pro fine to be issued; fieri facias when to issue so as to incluc
fines going, in whole or in part, to any incorporated city or town—

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectio
seven hundred and twenty-six of the code of Virginia be amended an
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 726. The court in which any judgment for a fine is rendered, going,
in whole or in part, to the commonwealth, or for a fine going, in whole
or in part, to any city or incorporated town upon appeal taken from the
decision of the mayor, any alderman, or police justice of such city or
town, when same is affirmed, in whole or in part, may of its own motion,
or at the instance of the attorney for the commonwealth, commit the
defendant to jail until the fine and costs are paid, or until ‘the costs are
paid where there is no fine; or the court or the judge thereof in vacation
may direct the clerk to issue a capias pro fine either before or after the
return of a writ of fieri facias. But, unless so directed, the clerk shall,
immediately after the term is ended, issue a writ of fieri facias, return-
able within ninety days, on every judgment for a fine rendered at such
term, or the court may, for good cause shown, direct a writ of fieri facias
to be issued during the term, on any such judgment.