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error upon any such, judgment, enter into bond with sufficient
securities in at least double the sum recovered by such judgment
or decree, or in double the value of the matter or thing in. con-
troversy, which shall have been recovered or decreed, if a move-
able chattel or chattels, to be estimated by the court from whose
judgment or decree the said appeal shall be made or writ of error
directed, with condition as follows or to the following effect:
That if the said party appellant, or party suing out such writ of
error, shall not cause a transcript of the record and proceedings
of the said judgment or decree to be transmitted to the Court of
Appeals within the time required by law, and prosecute the said
appeal or writ of error with effect, and also satisfy and pay to
the said party in whose favor such judgment or decree was ren-
dered or passed, his executors, administrators or assigns, in case
the said judgment or decree shall be affirmed, as well the debt,
damages and costs, or the damages or sum of money or other
matter or thing, and costs adjudged in the court from which the
appeal is taken, or writ of error sued out, as also all damages and
costs that may be awarded by the Court of Appeals, then the
said bond to be and remain in full force and virtue, otherwise of
no effect.

32. The clerk or judge of any court of law or equity shall
approve any bond under the preceding section.

83. The filing of an appeal bond approved as aforesaid shall
stay any execution which has been issued on any such judgment
or decree, whether the same has been in part executed or not;
and the sheriff or other officer in whose hands the execution may
be, shall, upon the exhibition to him of satisfactory evidence that
an appeal bond has been filed and approved, and upou the receipt
of the costs which have accrued on said execution, stay all further
proceedings, and deliver up the property; Provided, that this
section shall not extend to appeals from courts of common law
rendered by confession, or to any judgment rendered on verdict,
unless a bill of exceptions has been taken, or a motion in arrest
of judgment has been overruled.

34. The courts of law and equity and the judges thereof, in
vacation, shall have full power and authority to examine into
and determine on the sufficiency of the sureties to any bond
filed in the offices of the said courts respectively under this
article, and the said courts may from, time to time make such
rules and orders for the justifying or proving the sufficiency of