Chap. 353.-—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 46, Chapter 85, of
the Code of 1860, as Amended by Act of January 16th, 1866, in Relation
to the Number of Guards for a Lunatic while being Conveyed to the
Asylums.

Approved March 2%, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-six of chapter eighty-five of the Code of Virginia,
43 amended by act January sixteen, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“‘§ 46. Each officer shall be allowed eight cents per mile,
besides tolls and ferriages, for himself, and the same for one
yuard, both going to and returning from the Asylum to carry
» lunatic, and the same sum for the lunatic going and also
returning when he is carried from an Asylum by a properly
suthorized officer; but no officer shall be allowed for any per-
3on as a guard for one lunatic without a warrant from the
xxXamining justices authorizing said guard, nor then for more
han one person. If in any case the charges allowed by this
section shall not be sufficient to defray the actual expenses
necessarily incurred in the performance of the services, the
county or corporation court of the county or corporation tc
which the officer belongs may, upon proof of that fact, allow a
‘sum sufficient to cover such deficiency, which shall be paid in
hike manner as the legal charge.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.