Chap. 509.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 717 of the code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved March 1, 1898, relating to tines and costs before
justices of the peace, so as to give effect to judgments for fines and costs imposed

y mayors of towns incorporated under the general laws for violation of a town
ordinance.

Approved February 24, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seven hundred and seventeen of the code of Virginia as amended by an
act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$717. Fines imposed by justices and mayors of towns chartered under
the general laws of this state—In any misdemeanor case tried before
a justice of the peace, or in any case tried before a mayor of a town
chartered under the general laws of this state, for the violation of a
town ordinance, in which a fine is imposed on a defendant, or in which
the defendant is required to pay the costs and the same are not paid,
the justice or the mayor, as the case may be, may, in his discretion, take
security for payment of such fine and costs, or for the costs alone where
there is no fine, such payment to be made within thirty days from the
day of trial. It shall be sufficeint to bind such surety that the justice or
mayor before whom such case is tried, endorse on the warrant the name
of the surety, amount for which he is bound, and the date of the en-
dorsement; but if no security is given, the defendant may be committed
to jail until such fine and costs, or such costs alone, are paid. If
security be given and payment is not made to the clerk of the court, or,
in case the fine be imposed by the mayor of a town, chartered as aforesaid,
for the violation of a town ordinance, to the proper collecting officer
of such town, the clerk of the court, where such fine is imposed by a
justice, shall issue execution against the person against whom the judg-
ment is rendered as well as against the surety in the same manner as
provided by section seven hundred and nineteen of the code; and when
such fine is imposed by the mayor of a town, chartered as aforesaid, such
mayor ehall issue execution against the person against whom the judg-
ment is rendered as well as against the surety, as provided by section one
thousand and thirty-three of the code of Virginia; but in case the bond
is not given as provided in this section, the justice or mayor, as the case
may be, may commit the defendant to jail until the fine and costs are
paid, or until the costs are paid, where there is no fine, unless sooner
discharged by due course of law. ;
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.