Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That any person or persons, who shall hereafter acknowledge himself special bail in the manner specified in the 4^th section of the Act, to which this is an amendment,2 shall thereby become responsible for [the] debt so said for, to be recovered by an action of debt before any Justice of the Peace in this State, which action shall be commenced upon the original acknowledgment, upon the Capias or a copy, thereof certified by the Justice who issued the said Capias or by his successor in office, for which copy the said Justice shall receive twenty five cents, Provided, that a Judgement for said debt shall first be rendered against the principal (being def^t[defendant] in the suit) an execution issued, and a return of nulla bona, by the constable charged with the execution of the same”

Sec. 2. That hereafter, when the plaintiff in any suit brought before a Justice of the Peace, shall suspect any person of being indebted to the def^t in said suit, or of having property of said defendants in his or her possession, he may require of, and it shall be the duty of said Justice, to comma^n^d any constable by endorsement on the Capias or Summons, to cite such person as garnishee, to appear before [?] the [?] and place specified in such capias or summons, and answer an oath or affirmation, what amount of debt if any, he may owe the said Defendant, and what goods, chattles[,] and effects, the property of said Defendant, he he may have in his possession upon the return of which Capias or Summons, and Judgement being first rendered against the Def^t, such proceedings may be had against the person summoned as garnishee as may now be had against garnishees under the provisions of the “act, entitled “an act concerning attachments” Approved Feb.[February] 13^th 18333