CHAPTER 227

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 19-50 and 19-285 of the Code of Virginia,
relating, respectively, to confinement of prisoners being taken through
the State and providing medical attendance, medicines and clothing
for prisoners.

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Approved March 7, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 19-50 and 19-285 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 19-50. The officer or agent of a demanding state to whom a pris-
oner may have been delivered following extradition proceedings in an-
other state or to whom a prisoner may have been delivered after waiving
extradition in such other state, and who is passing through this State
with such prisoner for the purpose of returning immediately such pris-
oner to the demanding state may, when necessary, confine the prisoner
in the jail of any county or city through which he may pass; and the
keeper of such jail shall receive and safely keep the prisoner until the
officer or agent having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route,
such officer or agent, however, being chargeable with the expense of
keeping, provided, however, that such officer or agent shall * deliver to
the jailor the warrant or legal order authorizing custody of the prisoner.
Such prisoner shall not be entitled to demand a new requisition while in
this State.

§ 19-285. A court may appoint a physician to attend prisoners in its
jail and make him a reasonable allowance, not exceeding seventy-five cents
per day for each day he attends a patient. When he attends more than
one patient a day there may be allowed fifty cents per day for each addi-
tional patient. The governing body of any county or city may, in its
discretion, supplement such allowance to the extent of two dollars and
twenty-five cents per day for the first patient attended on any day. * It
may also make an allowance, not to exceed twenty-five dollars, as compen-
sation to any physician or analytical chemist for making an analysis to dis-
cover poison in any criminal case. Allowances under this section, except
the supplemental allowance herein provided for, shall be paid out of
the State treasury, except that no allowance shall be made or paid for
medicines furnished such prisoner unless the account therefor is certified
by the physician for the jail to be correct. When any supplemental allow-
ance is made by the governing body of any county such supplemental allow-
ance shall be paid out of the county treasury, and when clothing is ob-
tained for prisoners worked in the chain gang of any county, city or town,
such clothing shall be paid for out of the treasury of such county, city
or town.