60. Whenever a justice of the peace issues a warrant of distress as hereinbefore provided, he may suffer the defendant to go at large or, verbally or by a warrant in that behalf, may order the defendant to be kept and detained in safe custody, until return has been made to the warrant of distress, unless the defendant gives sufficient security, by recognizance or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the justice of the peace, for his appearance, at the time and place appointed for the return of the warrant of distress, before him or before such other justice of the peace for the same territorial division as shall then be there.
R. S. 1964, c. 35, s. 57.