Chap. 645.-—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4079 of the Code of Virginia
in relation to the appointment of a physician to attend prisoners in the jail o
Warwick county.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
four thousand and seventy-nine of the Code of Virginia be amended anc
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4079. A court may appoint a physician to attend prisoners in it:
jail, and make him a reasonable allowance, not exceeding seventy-fivi
cents per day for each day he attends a patient. When he attends mon
than one patient a day, there may be allowed fifty cents per day for eact
additional patient. A court may make an allowance, not to exceed th
sum of twenty-five dollars, as compensation to any physician or analytica
chemist for making an analysis to discover poison in any criminal case
It may also, when a person in its jail charged with or convicted of ar
offense is unable to provide himself with sufficient clothing, direct th
jailer to provide him clothing, and allow therefor, not exceeding ten dol:
lars in one year. Allowances under this section, on being certified by sai
court, shall be paid out of the treasury, except that where clothing is ob-
tained for prisoners worked in the chain-gang of any county, city, o!
town such clothing shall be paid for out of the treasury of such county,
city, or town: provided, that the physician to attend the prisoners con-
fined in the jail of Warwick county shall be appointed by the court of
said county upon the recommendation of the board of supervisors of the
said county, such recommendation to be made at the next meeting of the
said board of supervisors in May, nineteen hundred and two, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, and the physician so appointed shall hold office
for the term of four years, and shall enter upon the discharge of the
duties of said office so soon as he shall take and subscribe the oath of
office prescribed by law before such officers as may be qualified to admin-
ister oaths, which oath shall be filed in the clerk’s office of the said county
of Warwick. The physician so appointed may be removed by the board
of supervisors or court of the said county for malfeasance, misfeasance,
or neglect of duty, and upon such removal the said board shall recom-
mend his successor. The appointment as physician in the said county
heretofore made is hereby declared to be void upon the qualification of
the physician appointed under this section.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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

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