Found this interesting...not sure exactly what it means... From: "Acts and Join Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia During the Session of 1891-'92" Chap. 125.—An ACT for the relief of M. P. Fulcher, Tobias Phillips, and Beauford Akers. Approved February 2, 1892. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That M. P. Fulcher, Tobias Phillips, junior, and Beauford Akers, of Floyd county, Virginia, be, and they are hereby, relieved from the payment of a bond executed by them to the commonwealth of Virginia, on the thirteenth of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-two cents, payable six months after date, with interest from date, for the hire of one Noah Wade, who was arrested by sheriff of Floyd county under a capias pro fine from county court of Montgomery county and hired out under the statute; but the said Fulcher, Phillips and Akers are to pay the costs of a suit now pending against them in the circuit court of Floyd county to recover the amount of said bond. 2. It is shown that Noah Wade did not perform, and refused to perform, any service under his hiring. 3. That, in pursuance of statute, said parties made affidavit of non-performance of service by said Wade under said hiring, and that a new capias was awarded and issued, and said Wade again arrested and lodged in jail. 4. The said Wade sued out a writ of a habeas corpus before the judge of the county court of Floyd county, who heard and determined the case and discharged Wade from custody without notice to either of said Fulcher, Phillips or Akers. 5. This act shall be in force from its passage.