Chap. 204.—An ACT to provide for the transportation of convicts to the peni-
tentiary and to repeal sections 4065, 4066, 4067, 4068, 4069, and 4070 of the code
of Virginia.

Approved January 30, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That every
person sentenced by a court to confinement in the penitentiary,
shall, as soon as may be, be conveyed to the penitentiary, in the
manner hereinafter provided. The clerk of the court in which the
person is sentenced shall forthwith transmit to the superintend-
ent of the penitentiary a copy of the judgment, and if he fail to do
so, he shall forfeit one hundred dollars. Upon receiving such copy
the superintendent of the penitentiary shall dispatch a guard to the
county or corporation, with a warrant, directed to the sheriff, author-
izing him to deliver the convict, whose duty it shall be to take
charge of the said person and convey him to the penitentiary. If,
because of the number of persons to be conveyed to the penitentiary,
or because there is reason to apprehend an attempt to rescue, the
superintendent shall deem it necessary, he may despatch more than
one guard, and make provision for the employment by the guard of
persons to assist him in the performance of his duty. The superin-
tendent shall be entitled to receive from the auditor of public
accounts such certificates of transportation as he may require in ex-
ecuting the provisions of this act, and other expenses incurred by
him in the execution thereof he shall pay, the same to be allowed
himin the settlements of his accounts; provided that the superinten-
dent may in any proper case require the sheriff of any county or the
sergeant of any corporation to deliver such convict at a railway
station designated by the superintendent, to be there delivered
to his authorized agent, and for such services the court of such
county or corporation shall allow the said sheriff a reasonable com-
pensation to be paid out of the public treasury.

2. Sections four thousand and sixty-five, four thousand and sixty-
six, four thousand and sixty-seven, four thousand and sixty-eight,
four thousand and sixty nine, and four thousand and seventy of the
code of Virginia be, and the same are now, repealed.

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