Chap. 428.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2805 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the poor. [H B 235]

Approved March 26, 1930

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-eight hundred and five be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows: |

Section 2805. Every person to be provided for by the overseers
shall be sent to and kept at the place of general reception of the
poor to be supported, and all persons kept at such places who are
able to work shall be made to do so. In any county having no place
of general reception for its poor, persons requiring assistance may be
provided for by the overseer of the district in which the pauper re-
sides by and with the consent of the board of supervisors of the
county. And in any county the overseer of any district, by and with
the consent of the board of supervisors of the county, may provide
assistance for any person or the family of any person who is unable to
support himself or family at his place of residence when it would be
injudicious that such person or family should be moved to the place
of general reception. The evidence of the consent of said board of
supervisors shall be an order of record made at its regular or called
meeting, setting forth the extent of such assistance. The expenses
attending the keeping of such poor outside of the place of general
reception shall be certified to the board of supervisors by the overseer,
providing such assistance and be provided for in their annual levy.
It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to provide for each
magisterial district a contingent fund not to exceed five hundred dol-
lars for any one year, which shall be under the control of the over-
seer of the poor and the member of the board from each district, to be
used for cases of emergency. ,