St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-12-18

shall be returned unsatisfied because no pro
perty of the father or his suTetieS can be found
whereon to levy the same, the clerk of the
court from which such execution issued,
may, upon request of the mother, issue a
warrant to commit the father to Jail and the
father may. upon such warrant, be committed
to the Jail in the county where the Judgment
was rendered unless he shall pay the sum due
upon such execution with the costs thereon
and the costs on such warrant. and such other
sums as are then due and PAYABLE by the
terms of the orders of the court in the pre-
misses. and also enters into new recognizance,
with sufficient SuretieS. before one of the
judges OF the county court, conditioned that
he will abide and perform the orders of the
court before made in the premises
SEC. >. If the father shall be committed TO
Jail under the provisions of this act, he shall
there remain until he pays the sums named
IN the first section of this act, with the costs
OF commitment, and enters into the recog-
nlzance aforesaid. or until he is discharged by
the mother or by law. The recognizance so
taken shall be returned by the judge to the
county court, and the mother shall be entitled
to the same remedies thereon that are pro
vided in section 24o7 of Revised Laws.
SEC. ). This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. IS, 1854. @
No 97.-An act in relief of sureties in bas
tardy proceedings.
1t is hereby enacted, ETC.:
SEC l. When person becomes recognized
before justice or judge of the County Court
as surety for the personal appearance before
County Court, of person charged with
being the father OF a bastard child, as re
quired by sections 1898 and 1899 of the Re
vised Laws, the officer making the arrest,
upon the original warrant, of the person so
charged with being the father of such bastard
child, if required, shall give such surety q
bail piece, if such recogniZance,iS entered into
before juStice but if such recogniZance is
entered into before judge of a County Court
the keeper OF the Jail in the county where
such principal is confined shall, if required,
give to the surety such bail piece.
SEC. .. Upon the presentation OF such bail
| piece to a justice, the justice shall issue TO
such surety warrant directed to any sheriff
or constable, commanding him to assist such
surety in apprehending the principal.
SEC. ). The surety may use such warrant
when he has occasion to arrest the principal
in order that he may surrender him i'll court
III discharge of his reccOgnizance, or to secure
him until session of the court in which he
may he surrendered for that purpose.
SEC. I. The officer experimenting the
principal upon the warrant issued on the bail
| piece, may commit him to the jail in the
county IN which he was arrested on the oriiSi-
nal complaint, or in the county in which the
| bastardy proceedings is pend agreeably to
the direction of the warrant ii such com
mitment shall be considered ~ commitment
made under the provisions of section 1899 of
| the Revised Laws.
SEC. ). The surety may deliver the principal
| into court in discharge OF his recognZance
before the principal shall be adiudsed to be
the father OF such bastard child, and the order
of the court charging him with its support,
according to the provisions of section 1904 of
the Revised Laws but not after such order
OF court is made and he may at any time
before such adjudication and order, commit
the principal to jail 50 that he may be deliver
ed in court.
SEC. 6. When the principal is delivered
into court under the provisions of this act.
/ the court shall order him committed to jail
unless he enters into a recognizance before
such court with sufficient sureties in the sum
lN.-f glaY.,. fla..ar Il
as provided in section 1898 of Re
vised Laws, and such commitment shall be
deemed commitment under the provisions
of section 1899 OF Revised Laws.
SEC. Z. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved Nov. :, \. d. 1854.