Chap. 170.—An ACT to provide for receiving and maintaining in State Hospitals
Federal prisoners whose sanity is in doubt for detention and diagnosis.

[S B 93]
Approved March 10, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. Subject to the further provisions of this act the State
Hospital Board shall be authorized to enter into a contract with the
United States, through the Director of the United States Bureau of
Prisons or other authorized agent of the United States, for the reception,
maintenance, care and observation in the State hospitals for the insane,
epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate, or in such of them as may be
designated by the board for the purpose of any persons charged with
crime in the courts of the United States sitting in Virginia and committed
by such courts to such hospitals for such purposes. All persons so com-
mitted shall remain subject to the jurisdiction of the court by whom they
were committed, and may be returned to such court at any time for
hearing or trial.

Section 2. Any such contract shall require that the United States
remit to the Treasurer of Virginia for each prisoner so committed spect:
fied per diem or other payments, or both, such payments to be fixed by
said contract.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of any hospita
to which a prisoner of the United States is so committed to observe th
patient and, as soon as may be, report in writing to the court by which he
is committed as to his mental condition or such other matters as the cour
may request be inquired into.

Section 4. No contract made pursuant to this act shall obligate the
Commonwealth or the State Hospital Board to receive a Federal prisone:
into any hospital in which all available accommodations are needed fo
patients otherwise committed, or in any other case where, in the opiniot
of the superintendent, the admission of such prisoner would interfer
with the care and treatment of other patients or the proper administratio1
of. the hospital. : ,