Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sectiop three, chapter tw:
hundred and four of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hun
dred and seventy-three, in relation to Allowances to Physicians it
Criminal Cases. _ |

Approved March 27, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
section three, chapter two hundred and four of the Code o
Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three), b
amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

§ 3. A court may appoint a physician to attend prisoner
in its jail, and make him a reasonable allowance. <A cour
may make allowance not to exceed the sum of twenty-fiv

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dollars, as compensation toany physician or analytical chemist,
for making any analysis to discover pqison, in any criminal
case. It may also, when a person in its jail, charged with
or convicted of an offence, is unable to provide himself with
sufficient clothing, direct the jailor to provide him clothing,
and allow therefor not exceeding ten dollars in one year.
Allowances under this section, on being certified by such
court, shall be paid out of the treasury.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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