Chap. 138.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4951 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the hiring of persons sentenced to confinement in jail for failure to
pay a fine and costs of prosecution, or confined in jail under a capias pro fine,
so as to provide for the relief of the hirer and the release of the fine and
costs. [S B 142]

Approved March 11, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-nine hundred and fifty-one of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the hiring of persons sentenced to confinement in jail for failure to pay
a fine and costs of prosecution, or confined in jail under a capias pro
fine, so as to provide for the relief of the hirer and the release of the
fine and costs, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4951. The officer shall take from the hirer an obligation
to the Commonwealth, with surety, for the payment of the fine and
costs, and return the same forthwith to the clerk’s office of the circuit
court of the county or corporation court of the city in whose jail the
prisoner is confined. The clerk shall endorse on the obligation the date
of its return, and, from the time it is returned it shall have the force
and effect of a judgment, but no execution shall issue thereon until
after motion upon notice to the obligors therein. If the prisoner re-
fuse to comply with the contract of hiring, on the affidavit of the hirer
a Capias pro fine may issue, and the prisoner be remanded to jail. If
the prisoner complies with his contract of hiring, he shall be discharged
from further liability for the fine whether the hirer pays same or not.