Chap. 65.—An ACT amending section 55, chapter TS4 of the Code. con-
cermng Officers’ Fees for taking care of Criminals,

Paksed Janinury 28, T8656.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, ‘That the thirty-
third section of chapter one hundred and eighty-four of the
Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows :

Ҥ 33. Foran arrest for felony, one dollar; and for con-
veying any person charged with or convicted of felony, to
jail, or from one jail to another, or to the penitentiary, for
each mile, in going and returning, ten cents. The officer
shall also be allowed tor the support of the prisoner during
the removal, and for assistance to make the arrest, or effect
the removal, such charge as may have been necessarily 1n-
curred by him, to be shown by his own aftlidavit, and when
he has assistance, by the aflidavit also of each person em-
ployed by him: such charge for assistance not to exceed.
where it is In making an arrest, seventy-five cents per day for
each person employed to assist him: and not to exceed,
where it is in conveying 4 prisoner, ten cents per mile, going
and returning, for each euard., Tf in anv ease the charges
alowed by this section shall not be suilicient to detray the
actual expenses necessarily incurred in the performance 01
the service, the cirewit court of the county or corporation to
which the oflicer belongs, may, upon proof of that fact, allow
sum sufficient to cover such deficiency, which shall he paid
in like manner as the legal charges.”

2, This act shall be in force irom its passave.
Chap. 65.—An ACT amending section 55, chapter TS4 of the Code. con-
cermng Officers’ Fees for taking care of Criminals,

Paksed Janinury 28, T8656.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, ‘That the thirty-
third section of chapter one hundred and eighty-four of the
Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows :

Ҥ 33. Foran arrest for felony, one dollar; and for con-
veying any person charged with or convicted of felony, to
jail, or from one jail to another, or to the penitentiary, for
each mile, in going and returning, ten cents. The officer
shall also be allowed tor the support of the prisoner during
the removal, and for assistance to make the arrest, or effect
the removal, such charge as may have been necessarily 1n-
curred by him, to be shown by his own aftlidavit, and when
he has assistance, by the aflidavit also of each person em-
ployed by him: such charge for assistance not to exceed.
where it is In making an arrest, seventy-five cents per day for
each person employed to assist him: and not to exceed,
where it is in conveying 4 prisoner, ten cents per mile, going
and returning, for each euard., Tf in anv ease the charges
alowed by this section shall not be suilicient to detray the
actual expenses necessarily incurred in the performance 01
the service, the cirewit court of the county or corporation to
which the oflicer belongs, may, upon proof of that fact, allow
sum sufficient to cover such deficiency, which shall he paid
in like manner as the legal charges.”

2, This act shall be in force irom its passave.