Chap. 88.—An ACT to amend Chapter 64 of the Acts of Assembly of 1895-6, ap-
proved January 16, 1896, which chapter provided a charter for the City of
Newport News, by adding a new section, numbered 63-b, to provide for the con-
struction, operation and maintenance of a detention home for certain children.

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Approved March 2, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter sixty-four of the Acts of Assembly of eighteen
hundred ninety-five-six, approved January sixteen, eighteen hundred
ninety-six, be amended by adding a new section numbered sixty-three-b,
as follows:

Section 63-b. The city council may in its discretion provide for
the construction, operation, maintenance, and supervision of a detention
home for the purpose of detaining children coming under the jurisdiction
of the juvenile and domestic relations court of the City of Newport News,
Virginia, or by any other court of competent jurisdiction. Such deten-
tion home shall be furnished and carried on so far as possible as a family
home under the management of a superintendent or matron. Such super-
intendent or matron and such other employees of such home as are nec-
essary shall be appointed by the city manager and shall hold office at the
pleasure of the city manager of the City of Newport News and shall re-
ceive such salary as 1s fixed by the council.

For the maintenance of children detained in such detention home
operated by the city, there shall be paid by the State the following per
diem allowances: For the first five children, not to exceed one dollar and
twenty-five cents each; for the next ten children, not to exceed one dollar
each: for the next ten children, not to exceed seventy-five cents each:
for the excess above twenty-five children, not to exceed sixty cents each,
as provided by chapter two hundred seventy-three. Acts nineteen hun-
dred forty-four, pages three hundred ninety-two-three hundred ninety-
three; such allowances to be made and presented monthly on forms to
be provided by the State Department of Public Welfare, as now required
in the.case of detention homes operating under such chapter.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistencies.

3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.