Chap. 102.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provite for the
transportation of eonvicts aud Insane persons aud their guards at
reduced rates,

Approved April 2, 1872.

1. Be 1 enacted by the general assembly, That an act en-
titled an act to provide for transportabion of convicts and
insane persons and theie graras at reduced rates, approved
March twelfth, eighteen hunurec and seventy-eicht, pe araended
and re-enacicd (by adding an independent section, to come in
after the lirst section of said act), so as to read ws follows:

$2. Be it enacted by the gcneral assembly of Virginia, That
the contrects heretofore or hereafier mado under the provisions
of the first section of this act, may be renewed or extended
for such time as tue reilroad commissionsr, with the approval
of the governor, shall Geem fo the interest or advantage of the
state. ‘The superintendent of each of the several lanatic asy-
lums of the state is hereby authorized and directed, when
practicable, to send a proper guard for each patient destined
for the asylum under his management: provided that when the
said superintendent deems it as well for the patient and more
economical for the state, he is hereby empowered to authorize
any friend of the patient of responsibility and character to
cuard and conduct such patient to the asylum, and shall fur-
nish the party so appointed for the said purpose a certificate,
which shall entitle him to the passes usually furnished sheriff
or other officer; and upon presentation of said paper to the
clerk of the county, city or corporation in which the patient
resides, the said clerk shall furnish the said person to convey
said patient to the asylum the usual certificates of transportation :
provided further, that the said superintendent shall allow
the party appointed under this provision only the actual ne-
cesary expenses incurred by him or them in conveying to
the asylum said patient; and in cases in which neither of the
above-mer‘ioned arrangoments for guarding and conducting
the insane to asylum shall be expedient or advisable, the sheriff
or other guard, as heretofore. shall conduct insane persons to
the asylum, and shall be allowed actual necessary expenses in
discharging this duty, and also one dollar per day to the sheriff
or other oificer for each day actually occupied in this service.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.