Chap. 41.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5007 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to male prisoners in the penitentiary. [H B 48]

Approved February 24, 1932
1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five thousand and seven of the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: |

Section 5007. Before any male prisoner shall be permitted to labor
in the shops, or elsewhere out of his room he shall make and subscribe
such promise of obedience and fidelity to the rules and orders of the
institution, as shall be prescribed by the board and approved by the
governor, and it shall be the duty of the superintendent, as far as prac-
ticable, to provide suitable employment in separate rooms for the re-
fractory and obstinate and for those of disordered mind, or who, for
any cause, are unfit to be congregated in the shops. If at any time
there is reasonable ground to doubt the sanity of a convict, the super-
intendent shall report it to the governor, who shall order such convict
to be examined by the State board of mental hygiene, and if, after due
examination, they shall find him insane, he shall be transferred to one
of the State hospitals for the insane, as provided in sections one thou-
sand and twenty-two to one thousand and twenty-five, inclusive, and
section one thousand and twenty-seven ; and when restored to sanity he
shall be returned to the penitentiary in the manner prescribed in section
four thousand nine hundred and eleven.