CHAP. 428.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended. (H. B. 408.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section nine hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted to read as
follows:

Section 929. The board of supervisors and jail physician,
if any, of each county in this State, once every three months,
shall inspect the jail of said county. In every city having a cor-
poration court with a jail separate from the county jail, the
judge of the corporation court shall at the January term of
said corporation court appoint a committee of three discreet
freeholders, one of whom shall be a physician, whose duty it
shall be to inspect said jail, and who shall hold office for a term
of one year from their appointment, or until their successors
shall have been duly appointed by said corporation court. The
judge of the circuit court shall administer an oath to the board
of supervisors, and the judge of the corporation court shall ad-
minister an oath to the committee appointed by him, which oath
shall be as follows:

“You shall report to the court as to the jail in this county or
city, the size thereof, the number of apartments, and its state of
condition, whether it is in all respects such as required by section
nine hundred and twenty-six, and if not, in what it is deficient.
You shall also diligently examine and truly report whether or
not the jailor has, during the last three months, faithfully per-
formed the duties required of him in section nine hundred and
twenty-eight, and if she has not, in what respect has he failed
to perform the same.’

The said inspectors shall make quarterly inspections and re-
port as above provided, and shall be furnished with a copy of
said oath and of said sections.

If they make a report which fails in any respect to conform
to said oath, it shall be recommitted to them until they fully
report upon all of said matters. The said committee of jail in-
spectors shall receive no compensation for their services: pro-
vided, however, that the judge of the corporation court of the
city of Richmond may allow to said committee or inspectors ap-
pointed for the jail of the city of Richmond a reasonable com-
pensation, not to exceed ten dollars, to each inspector for the
services rendered at each inspection, the said sum so allowed to
be paid out of the treasury of the said city. If it is deemed
necessary by said board of supervisors in counties where there
is no physician, they shall appoint a physician to accompany
them, who shall give his opinion as to the sanitary condition
of the jail, which opinion shall be embodied in the report. The
supervisors shall not hold a special meeting for the purpose of
making the inspection herein provided for. Said supervisors and
jail physician shall receive no additional pay for the services
hereby required.