Chap. 102.—An ACT to provide for the Erection and Maintenance of
Jails,

Passed January S$, 1800.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
when it shall appear to any cirenit court that there is no jail
in the county or corporation tor which the said court sits, or
when it appears to such court, from the report of persons

appointed to examine the jail. or otherwise, that the jail of
such county or corporation is insecure, or out of repair, or
otherwise insufficient, it shall be the duty of such court to
award a rule, in the name and on behalf of the common-
wealth, against the justices of the said county, or the mem-
bers of the council of the said corporation, as the case may
be, to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not
issue, commanding them to erect a jail for the said county or
corporation, or to cause the jail of such county or corporation
to be made secure, or put in good repair, or rendered other-
wise sufticient, as the case may be, and to proceed, as in other
eases of mandamus, to cause the necessary work to be done.
The court may enforce obedience to its orders by attachment
or by tines, which may be repeated or continued from time
to time, according to the delay which may occur, without
sufficient excuse, in the exeention of the work ordered by
the court.

2. If, in the progress of such proceedings, any of the de-
fendants should die, or go out of office, their successors may
be made parties by the service of a notice in writing to ap-.
pear and defend the proceedings; and the cause shall
thereafter proceed against them as defendants. The vacation
of his office otherwise than by death, shall not relieve any of:
the parties from a halility already incurred, whether the
penalty has already been imposed or not.

3. The jurisdiction vested by this act in the circuit courts:
shall be exereised likewise by the hustings court for the city
of Richmond, held by the judge. .

4. This act shall be in force trom its passage.

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Chap. 102.—An ACT to provide for the Erection and Maintenance of
Jails,

Passed January S$, 1800.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
when it shall appear to any cirenit court that there is no jail
in the county or corporation tor which the said court sits, or
when it appears to such court, from the report of persons

appointed to examine the jail. or otherwise, that the jail of
such county or corporation is insecure, or out of repair, or
otherwise insufficient, it shall be the duty of such court to
award a rule, in the name and on behalf of the common-
wealth, against the justices of the said county, or the mem-
bers of the council of the said corporation, as the case may
be, to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not
issue, commanding them to erect a jail for the said county or
corporation, or to cause the jail of such county or corporation
to be made secure, or put in good repair, or rendered other-
wise sufticient, as the case may be, and to proceed, as in other
eases of mandamus, to cause the necessary work to be done.
The court may enforce obedience to its orders by attachment
or by tines, which may be repeated or continued from time
to time, according to the delay which may occur, without
sufficient excuse, in the exeention of the work ordered by
the court.

2. If, in the progress of such proceedings, any of the de-
fendants should die, or go out of office, their successors may
be made parties by the service of a notice in writing to ap-.
pear and defend the proceedings; and the cause shall
thereafter proceed against them as defendants. The vacation
of his office otherwise than by death, shall not relieve any of:
the parties from a halility already incurred, whether the
penalty has already been imposed or not.

3. The jurisdiction vested by this act in the circuit courts:
shall be exereised likewise by the hustings court for the city
of Richmond, held by the judge. .

4. This act shall be in force trom its passage.

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