Chap. 180.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2992 of the Code of
Virginia, in relation to judgment debtors about to quit the Hn 56.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-nine hundred and ninety-two of the Code of Vir-
ginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 2992. Under such capias, the defendant against
whom it issues shall be arrested and committed to jail, unless
bond be given in the sum aforesaid, with sufficient surety, that
in case there shall in the action or suit, be any judgment, decree,
or crder on which a writ of fieri facias may issue, and within
four months after such judgment, decree, or order summons
shall be issued against said defendant under section thirty-six
hundred and three, to appear before a commissioner, the said
defendant will, at the time such summons is issued, be in the
county or corporation in which such commissioner may reside,
and will, at the time and place designated in such summons,
appear and make proper answers under oath to such interroga-
tories as shall be propounded to him, and make such conveyance
and delivery as is required by chapter one hundred and seventy-
six, and that, in case of failure to be in such county or corpora-
tion when such summons is issued, and to appear and give such
answers and make such conveyance and delivery, the said de-
seanany will perform and satisfy the said judgment, decree or
order.