ART 157: The first part of the bail shall be returned or the first part of the security shall be lifted if the person charged attended all the proceedings and to enforce the judgement. The State shall own this part once the person charged, without lawful excuse, fails to attend any stage of the proceeding or with respect to the enforcement of the judgement. The second part of the bail, or the second part of the security, shall always be returned in the event of dismissal, discharge or acquittal. In event of conviction, it shall be allocated to the costs, fines, restitutions and damages awarded to the party claiming damages in the order set out in Article 155. The surplus shall be returned. ART 158: The Public Prosecutor, of his/her own initiative or at the request of the party claiming, shall responsible for submitting, to registration authorities, either a certificate from the registry stating the responsibility incurred by the defendant in the case provided for in Paragraph 3 of Article 157, or a certified copy of the decision taken in the cases provided for in Paragraph 4 of the same Article. If the sums due are not paid in, the registration authorities shall pursue the recovery by means of coercion. The Caisse des dépôts et consignations (State Bank for Official Deposits) shall be responsible for immediately distributing deposited or recovered sums to the beneficiaries. Any dispute in respect of these various points shall be ruled upon pursuant to a motion, submitted to the council chamber, as a point of law in the enforcement of the judgement or order. Section VI - Rogatory Commissions and Judicial Delegation ART 159: The investigating judge may require, through a rogatory letter, any investigating judge, judge at the court's seat, or any Justice of the Peace within his/her jurisdiction, and by judicial delegation, any competent police official within his/her jurisdiction, to carry out the investigative acts which he/she considers necessary in the places where each one of them has territorial jurisdiction. ART 160: The rogatory letter or instrument of judicial delegation shall state the nature of the offence prosecuted. It shall be dated and signed by the judge who issues it and shall bear his/her official seal. It shall prescribe only investigative acts directly connected to the offence prosecuted and subject to the provisions of Article 101. ART 161: Magistrates or judicial police officials appointed for execution shall exercise all the powers of the investigating judge within the limits of the rogatory letters or the instruments of judicial delegation. However, judicial police officials may not conduct questionings and confrontations with the person charged. They may not hear the party claiming damages except at the request or with the consent of the latter. ART 162: Any witness summoned to be heard during the execution of a rogatory letter or under judicial delegation shall be obliged to appear, to take the oath and to give evidence. If he/she fails to comply with this obligation, notice shall be given immediat ely to the magistrate of the place of execution, who may compel him/her to appear with the aid of law enforcement authorities and sanction him/her as provided in Article 104. The provisions of Articles 72 to 76 and 105 shall apply. ART 163: The investigating judge shall fix the time limit within which the report drawn up by the judicial police official will be forwarded to him/her by the latter. In the absence of a time limit, the report must be forwarded to him/her within eight days of the end of the oper ations executed under judicial delegation. 31