Chap. 270.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 33 of Chapter 184
of the Code of Virginia (edition 1860), and to Provide for a more Eco-
nomical Mode of Transportation of Convicts to the Penitentiary.

Approved March 28, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and eighty-four of
the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty),
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 33. For an arrest for felony, one dollar; and for conveying
any person charged with or convicted of felony to jail, or from
one jail to another, for each mile of travel in going and re-
turning, ten cents. The officer shall also be allowed for the
support of the prisoner during the removal, and for assistance
to make the arrest or effect the removal, such charge as may
have been necessarily incurred by him, to be shown by his own
affidavit, and, where he has assistance, by the affidavit also of
the person employed by him—such charge for assistance not to
exceed, where it is in making an arrest, seventy-five cents per
day for each person employed to assist him. The said officer
shall also be allowed for conveying any person convicted of
felony to the penitentiary three dollars per day for each day
during the removal of said convict, and the actual necessary
expenses of himself and any guard that ‘may be necessary in
so conveying such convict, and also the actual necessary ex-
penses, including support, of such convict. The court sen-
tencing such convict shall determine what guard, if any, is
necessary to assist said officer in conveying the convict to the
penitentiary.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed. |

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