Chap. 354.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3510 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, as to the fees of jailers, for feeding prisoners

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Approved March 18, 1920.

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

Sec. 3510. Toa jailer:

For receiving a person in jail when first committed______.___- $ 50
For keeping and supporting him therein, for each day__-_--_-- 1 00
But when there are as many as three and less than ten prisoners

in jail, for each____-___--__---------------------------- 75

Where there are ten or more prisoners in jail, for each up to
and including twenty-five____._..----------------------
For each prisoner in excess of twenty-five, up to and including

fifty ~------------------------------+----------------- 50
For each prisoner in excess of fifty, up to and including one

hundred ~-------------------------------------------- 25
For each prisoner in excess of one hundred________---_-__--- 25

But no payment shall be made out of the treasury for receiving,
keeping and supporting any prisoner, committeed to jail for a viola-
tion of the ordinance of any city or town who is in jail under a capias
pro fine issued for a failure to pay a fine imposed for violation of such
ordinance.
2. That owing to the present high prices of provisions, the jailers
of the State of Virginia are unable to furnish to the prisoners at the
present prices allowed by law, sufficient food without loss to such
jailers, this act shall be deemed an emergency act, and be in force
from its passage.

3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.