Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of an act en-
titled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to
lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care
and employment of convicts, approved January 22, 1894, as amended by an act
approved March 5, 1900, as amended by an act approved April 2, 1902.

Approved April 24, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two, three, four, and five of an act entitled an act to authorize the super-
intendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and
to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of con-
victs, approved January twenty-second, cighteen hundred and ninety-
four, as amended by an act approved March fifth, nineteen hundred, as
amended by an act approved April second, nineteen hundred and two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Whereas, the cells of the Virginia penitentiary are greatly over-
crowded, there being less than two hundred cells for over twelve hundred
male convicts ; and,

Whereas, several hundred of the convicts are unfit for service in the
prison, but could be made uscful in the cultivation of a farm; therefore,

§ 2. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there shall
be a surgeon for said farm appointed by the board, whose compensation
shall be at the rate of fifty dollars per month and board for himself and
horse ; a superintendent appointed by the board, whose compensation shall
be sixty dollars per month and board for himself, and who shall have
charge of the cultivation of the farm, and shall perform such other dutics
as may be assigned him, all under the direction of the board.

The said superintendent, subject to the approval of the board, shall
appoint, and may remove, such guards as may be necessary, whose com-
pensation shall be twenty-five dollars per month and their board. The
pay of the said superintendent, surgeon, and guards shall be monthly upon
the certificate of the superintendent, on the warrant of the auditor of
public accounts.

§ 3. All laws for the government of the penitentiary shall be in force
on said farm, so far as applicable, and the same discipline enforced there
as in the penitentiary.

§ 4. The said superintendent shall, at the end of each fiscal year, take
an inventory and make out a general account between the State and farm
for such year, charging the latter with the value of the stock, tools, im-
plements, materials and supplics, including provisions and clothing on
hand at the commencement of the year, and the cost of the same bought
during the year, the salaries of officers and guards, and all other expenses
of the farm; and crediting it with work done by the convicts on the buili-
ings and permanent fixtures on the farm, the value of the stock, tools.
implements, and so forth, on hand at the end of the year, the value of al!
products furnished the penitentiary, all moneys received for sale of such
products, and all other debits and credits necessary to show a true account
of the farm with the State.

§ 5. All costs of lease, erection of buildings, and other expenses of said
farm, not otherwise provided for, shall be paid out of the net earnings
of the penitentiary, by warrants drawn on the treasury, upon the order
of the superintendent of the penitentiary, approved by the board.

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