Chap. 237.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the forty-seventh section
of an Act entitled an Act prescribing the Duties, Powers, Liabilities
and Compensation of certain County Officers, providing for the Col-
lection of Taxes and the repeal of chapters thirty-seven and forty-six of
the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, so as to empower
the Superintendent of the Poor to appoint and discharge Nurses, At-
tendants and Servants employed at the Poor-house. .

Approved March 29, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-seven of an act entitled an act prescribing the
duties, powers, liabilities and compensation of certain county
officers, providing for the collection of taxes, and for the re-
peal of chapters thirty-seven and forty-six of the Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March twen-
ty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
-§47. The superintendent of the poor for each county shall
have charge of the county poor-house, where a county poor-
house now exists; and where there is no county poor-house,
he shall, when so directed by the board of supervisors for the
county, provide suitable places for the keeping of the poor of
his county, by renting or leasing tenement houses suitable
for the purpose, with land attached thereto for a farm. He
shall have power to appoint and to discharge or remove all
nurses, attendants or servants employed at or about the
county poor-house. He shall receive at such poor-house, such
paupers as may be sent to him by the overseers of the poor
of the several districts of the county, and provide and care
for said paupers in the manner provided for by law, and
shall, when in his opinion it is unnecessary for any pauper
to remain longer at the poor-house, discharge said pauper
therefrom.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.