Chap. 512.—An ACT relating to and defining the duties of certain officers with
reference to aliens committed for violation of law or as public charges.

[H B 164]
Approved March 28, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when-
ever any person shall be committed to the State penitentiary, a State
reformatory, a State asylum, a county jail, a county almshouse or any
other State or county institution which is supported wholly or in part
by public funds, it shall be the duty of the warden, superintendent,
sheriff or other officer in charge of such State or county institution to
at once inquire into the nationality of such person, and if it shall
appear that such person is an alien, to immediately notify the United
States immigration officer in charge of the district in which such peni-
tentiary, asylum, reformatory, jail or other institution is located, of the
date of and the reasons for such alien commitment, the length of time
for which committed, the country of which he is a citizen, his age,
and the date and vessel on which and the port at which he last entered
the United States.

2. Upon the official request of the United States immigration offi-
cer, in charge of the territory or district in which is located any court
committing any alien to any State or county institution which is sup-
ported wholly or in part by public funds, it shall be the duty of the
clerk of such court to furnish, without charge, a certified copy, in dupli-
cate, of the complaint, information or indictment and the judgment and
sentence and any other record pertaining to the case of the convicted
alien.