Chap. 355.—An ACT to amend section 3470 of the Code of Virginia, 1887,
relating to bonds of appellants or petitioners. (S. B. 379.)

Approved March 27, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-four hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

Sec. 3470. Except where an appeal, writ of error or supersedeas
is proper to protect the estate of a decedent, infant, convict or in-
sane person, or to protect the interest of any county, city or town
of this Commonwealth, the same shall not take effect until bond be
given by the appellants or petitioners, or one or more of them, or
some other person, in a penalty to be fixed by the court or judge, by,
or in which, the appeal, writ of error or supersedeas is allowed or
entered (which penalty, in a case where the judgment, decree or
order, proceedings on which, in whole or in part, are stayed by
supersedeas, is for the payment of money, shall in no case be less
than the amount of money, the payment of which is stayed, with
interests and costs), with condition, if a supersedeas be awarded, to
perform and satisfy the judgment, decree or order, or the part
thereof, proceedings on which are stayed, in case the said judgment,
decree, or such part, be affirmed, or the appeal, writ of error or
supersedeas be dismissed, and also to pay all damages, costs and
fees which may be awarded or incurred by the appellants or peti-
tioners, in the appellate court, and all actual damages incurred in
consequence of the supersedeas, and if it be an appeal from a de-
cree or order dissolving an injunction, or dismissing a bill of in-
junction, with a further condition to indemnity and save harmless
the surety in the injunction bond against all loss or damage in con-
sequence of his suretyship, and with condition, when no supersedeas
is awarded, to pay such specific damages, and such costs and fees,
as may be awarded or incurred: provided, however, that the judge
or court granting the appeal, writ of error or supersedeas may sub-
sequently, on motion of any party in interest, require such bond
of any county, city or town, and provide in the order requiring the
same that the appeal, writ of error or supersedeas shall stand dis-
missed unless such bond is executed within a time to be specified in
such order, not, however, to exceed thirty days from the entry of
said order.