Chap. 417.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2872 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, relating to jails and accounts of jailers.
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Approved April 1, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-eight hundred and seventy-two of the Code of Virginia, as.
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2872. When court may adopt jail of another county or city.
—When a county or city is without sufficient jail, or its jail is to be
removed, rebuilt, or repaired, the court thereof may adopt as its jail
the jail of another county or city, until it can obtain a sufficient ‘jail.
All persons committed or to be committed to the jail of the first men-
tioned county or city, at or after such adoption, and before a sufficient
jail be so obtained, shall be conveyed to the jail so adopted. In any
case should it become necessary or expedient for the safekeeping of
any prisoner, or for other good cause, a court or the judge thereof
in vacation, may commit such prisoner to a jail other than that located
in his county or city; and the sheriff or sergeant in making his account
for the board of such prisoner or prisoners as provided in section
thirty-five hundred and ten of the Code, as amended, shall include such
prisoner or prisoners in such account, as if such prisoner or prisoners
had actually been committed from his county or city, and the judge
of the circuit, corporation or hustings court of the county or city in
which such jail is located, shall certify such account to the Comptroller
for payment out of the treasury, as provided in section forty-nine
hundred and sixty-one of the Code; provided, however, that the author-
ities of the county or city from which the prisoner is sent shall be
responsible for any damage done by him to the jail of the county or
city in which such prisoner may be confined. Provided, however, on
account of the dangerous character of the prisoners committed to the
jail of the county of Henrico the sheriff of said county is hereby author-
ized and empowered to render his accounts at the rates prescribed in
section thirty-five hundred and ten of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
regardless of the number of prisoners he may have in jail at the time
such accounts are prepared.