Section 19. Justices may issue process against sureties of Constables; appeal
Any Constable who has or may hereafter give security agreeably to law for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and afterwards on neglecting or refusing to perform such duties shall have judgment entered against him for such neglect or refusal and on being prosecuted for the recovery of such judgment becomes insolvent, abandons his country, or from any other reason it becomes impracticable for such judgment or judgments to be recovered from such Constable as aforesaid; or where a Constable makes such default and abandons his country before judgments are had against him, then, and in such cases only, the Justice before whom the judgment or judgments stand unpaid shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a scire facias, and proceed against such bail for the recovery of judgments had aforesaid, in the manner that Constables are now suable; saving only the right of appeal to such sureties. 1810, March 20, P.L. 208, 5 sm.1. 161, Sec. 19.