Chap. 340.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 4, 11 and 13, as amended,
of Chapter 214 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 19, 1926, re-
lating to the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and other State farms,
so as to permit persons confined in local jails to be transferred to and main-
tained at such farm or farms, to provide a per diem allowance for certain prison-
ers confined at State farms, and to prescribe the daily per capita allowance
for maintaining prisoners at the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and
other State farms. [S 86]

Approved March 30, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That sections two, four, eleven and thirteen, as amended, of chap-
ter two hundred fourteen of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred
twenty-six, approved March nineteen, nineteen hundred twenty-six, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 2. The State Board of Corrections shall have control of the
government and direction and management of the State farm for defective
misdemeanants, and other farm or farms established under authority of
this act.

Section 4. The State Board of Corrections shall decide when it is
feasible and expedient to transfer prisoners to such farm or farms and
shall decide what types of defective misdemeanants or other misde-
meanants or felons and what number shall be transferred to such farm
or farms. The Board, with the approval of the Governor, may permit
prisoners confined in local jails for violations of ordinances of counties,
cities and towns to be transferred to such farm or farms, the number so
transferred and the places from whieh they are taken to be determined
by the Board. The county or city from which any such person convicted
of violating a local ordinance was transferred shall pay to such farm for
the maintenance and care of such person the sum of one dollar per day.
All persons transferred to such farm or farms under the provisions of
this section shall be transferred in the manner prescribed by sections two
thousand seventy-five and thirty-five hundred ten of the Code.

Section 11. The State Board of Corrections may transfer any jail
inmate within the Commonwealth to the State farm for defective misde-
meanants, or other farm or farms, in a case of emergency or necessity.
Each misdemeanant who is employed at any such State operated farm or
farms including those employed at the State industrial farm for women,
shall be allowed ten cents per day for each day he or she works, to be
paid out of funds appropriated for the maintenance and operation of the
farm where such person is confined. Such allowance shall be in addition
to other credits and allowances provided by law, and one-half of the
amount thereof may be drawn upon by the prisoner at such time or times
as determined by the Commissioner of Corrections, and the remaining
one-half shall accumulate and be paid to the prisoner at the time of his
discharge.

Section 13. In order to provide funds for the establishment and
operation of the State farm for defective misdemeanants and any other
farm or farms, including the State industrial farm for women, the State
Board of Corrections shall receive the per diem allowance for the several
prisoners that are transferred to such farm or farms which shall be based
upon and fixed by the average per capita cost of maintaining prisoners at
such farm or farms for the preceding fiscal year, which, with the approval
of the Governor, may be anticipated in advance from the treasury to an
amount not in excess of the average per capita allowance for all jail pris-
oners during the last preceding year based on the maximum capacity of
the proposed institution or institutions for the first year of its operation ;
provided that the Board may use any of its unused available funds out of
general appropriation, or any funds, materials, equipment or lands that it
may secure, whether from private or public sources, without obligation to
the State.