Chap. 325.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4902 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [S B 119]
Approved March 20, 1922. .

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-nine hundred and two of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4902. When jury not to be kept together; when so kept to
be boarded; how paid.—In any case of felony where the punishment
cannot be death, the jury shall not be kept together unless the court
otherwise direct.

When the jury are so kept together, the court shall direct its offi-
cers to furnish them with suitable board and lodging, when so con-
fined, to be paid out of the treasury of the State, the expense thereof
not to exceed for each juror, fifty cents for breakfast, fifty cents for
dinner, fifty cents for supper, and one dollar for lodging; except that
when such case is tried in a city or in a county the courthouse of
which 1s situated in a city, such expense shall not exceed, for each
juror, seventy-five cents for each of such meals and two dollars
for lodging.