Chap. 235.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4982 and 4983 of the Code of
Virginia. [S B 244]
Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
forty-nine hundred and eighty-two and forty-nine hundred and eighty-
three of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 4982. How surety in recognizance may surrender principal
and be discharged from liability.—A surety in a recognizance may at any
time take his principal and surrender him to the court before which the
recognizance was taken; if such court is a court of record or if it was
taken by a court of record which is not in session, or by a judge, justice,
or other officer, the said surety may surrender his principal to the sheriff
or jailer of the county or the sergeant or jailer of the city in which the
said recognizance was taken, furnishing the officer to whom the sur-
render is made with a written statement that the surety desires to sur-
render the principal which statement shall operate as a direction and
authority to the officer to take the principal into custody, whereupon the
said surety shall be discharged from liability for any act of the principa!
subsequent thereto.

Section £983. The proceeding, when surety surrenders accused. —
If the surrender be to the court, it shall make such order as it deem:
proper; if the surrender be to a sheriff, sergeant or jailer, the officer tc
whom the accused has been surrendered shall give the surety a certifi-
cate of the fact. After such surrender the accused may be let to bail
anew for the residue of the term, or to appear as before. required, but
unless and until he is so let to bail anew he shall be detained in jail as in
other cases of failure to give bail.