Chap. 33.—An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly
or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the
Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons
confined therein. (H. B. 31.)

Approved March 4, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of any county or the council of any city
of this State may, within their respective jurisdiction or else-
where, establish and maintain a farm where any person convicted
of misdemeanor or violation of city ordinances, and sentenced to
confinement in the jail of said county, or city, or to be confined for
failure to pay any fine or cost as provided by law, may be confined
and required to do such work as may be assigned him or her during
the term of sentence aforesaid, under such rules and regulations as
are prescribed by the farm board, to be constituted as hereinafter
provided.

2. Said county or city farm shall be under the supervision,
control and management of a board of five persons, to be known
as the farm board, each member thereof to be elected by the super-
visors of the county or council of the city for the period of five
years, except at the first election, one member shall be elected for
one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years
and one for five years, and thereafter each member shall be elected
for the period of five years from the first day of January, follow-
ing his election; but said member of said board shall serve without
compensation. Said board shall appoint all the officers and em-
ployees required for the efficient conduct and management of said
farm, and fix their salaries, respectively, subject to the approval
of the supervisors of the county or council of the city which owns
the said farm. Said board shall have power to formulate rules
and regulations for the control and discipline of persons confined
therein, except that corporal punishment for the violation of rules
and regulations, or breaches of discipline shall be provided for by
general ordinances passed by said county supervisors or council of
the city.

3. “al prisoners convicted and sentenced as aforesaid shall be
required to work on said farm unless for good cause shown the
judge of the circuit court of the county or the judge of the corpora-
tion or hustings court of the city in whose jail the prisoner is con-
fined, shall otherwise order, and provided further, that any male
prisoner so convicted and sentenced may, in the discretion of the
judge aforesaid, be sent to work on said farm or the public roads as
now provided by law, as will be for the best interest of the prisoner
and the Commonwealth.

4. Any county or city that has no farm may enter into an
agreement with some county or city maintaining such farm to re-
ceive and work all persons liable to confinement and work them as
aforesaid, on such terms and conditions as to the payment of board,
medical expenses and clothing as may be mutually agreed upon by
the board of supervisors of the county or the council of the city.

5. With the consent of the county or city maintaining such
farm, the State may commit any person liable to confinement and
work on such farm to said farm, and shall pay to said county or
city maintaining such farm the fees and expenses now or hereafter
allowed to jailors, which payment shall be made when approved and
certified by the judge of the county or city owning said farm.

6. Any person convicted and sentenced for failure to support
his wife or minor children, or as an habitual drunkard, or a person
guilty of the intemperate use of drugs, as provided in an act passed
March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, chapter three hun-
dred and fifty-four, acts nineteen hundred and ten, as amended by
an act passed March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve,
chapter one hundred and seventy-nine, acts nineteen hundred and
twelve, may be committed to confinement and work on said farm
for the term and subject to the conditions provided in said act.

%. Said county or city farm may be used as a demonstrating
farm by agreement between the State board of agriculture and the
county or city maintaining and operating said farm.

8. All expenses of maintaining said farm, supporting the pris-
oners worked thereon, including board, clothing and medical at-
tention, shall be borne by the county or city owning such farm, ex-
cept as herein otherwise provided.

9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.