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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
[CHAP. XLIX.

pay the judgment, it shall be lawful for such surety to make and file affidavit of that fact before the justice on whos, docket the judgment is entered; whereupon such justice shall issue execution against the judgment debtor, which shall be proceeded in as in other cases: Provided, Such bail shall not thereby be discharged from liability, but may be proceeded against after the expiration of the term of stay, in the same manner as if execution had not issued as aforesaid.

Sect. 141. If the judgment debtor shall, within ten days after levying such execution, enter into a further undertaking for the stay of execution, during so much of the first stay as remains then unexpired, and shall pay costs of the execution issued against him as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the justice to take such further undertaking, and recall the execution; and the person who last became surety shall first be proceeded against, until it shall appear by the return of the constable, that he or she has no goods whereon to levy, before proceedings shall be instituted on the undertaking first given.

Sect. 142. When any judgment shall be obtained against any person who shall have entered himself bail on the docket of any justice of the peace, agreeably to the provisions of this act, the original judgment shall remain good and valid in law, for the use of such bail; who, at any time thereafter, may sue out execution on such judgment, against the goods and chattels of the defendant, for the use of such bail, which shall be so indorsed by the justice; and such bail shall also be entitled to a transcript of such judgment, for his own use; which shall have the same force and effect as transcripts in other cases.

Sect. 143. At any time before the stay shall expire, if the justice taking the surety, or his successor in office, shall become satisfied that the surety is insufficient, it shall be his duty to cause written notice thereof to be given to the defendant, or if he be absent, that the same be left at his residence, requiring him to give additional surety, on or by the third day after the giving of such notice, such facts shall be entered on the docket, and he shall immediately issue execution against the defendant for the collection of the judgment. If within ten days after the issuing of such execution, surety to the satisfaction of the justice be given, the