Chap. 507.—An ACT in relation to commitment of minors to Prison association
of Virginia and their custody. .

Approved February 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no
person shall be committed to, receive into, held by, or detained in
the prison association of Virginia after such person shall have
reached the age of twenty-one years.

2. It shall be the duty of every judge, court, or magistrate who
shall commit any minor to the custody of the prison association of
Virginia first to notify the said association, or its appropriate officer,
that said minors will be so committed with the assent of said asso-
ciation, and if said association shall assent to said commitment it
shall become its duty to send a proper officer or guard to receive and
take charge of said minor, who shall be regarded as in the legal
custody of said association from the time of being delivered to such
officer or guard; and the proper travelling and other expenses of
such officer or guard and of such minor shall be allowed and paid
by the auditor of public accounts, but the expenses of only one
such officer or guard in each case shall be so allowed and paid, unless
upon the certificate of the president or other chief officer of said
association that more than one officer or guard was necessary, and
the reasons therefor.

3. Jurisdiction of all habeas corpus and other proceedings to test
the right of said prison association of Virginia to retain custody of
said minore as shall be committed or surrendered or received into
its custody shall be exclusively in the circuit court of Richmond.

4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.