Chap. 322.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4144 of the code of Vir-
ginia, entitled record to be kept of conduct of convicts; to have credit for
good conduct.

Approved February 11, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by.the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-one hundred and forty-four of the code of Virginia, entitled
record to he kept of conduct of convicts; to have credit for good
conduct, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4144. Record to be kept of conduct of convicts; to have credit
for good conduct; record of punishment, and so forth, of convicts; in-
spection of same.—The superintendent shall keep a record of the con-
duct of each convict, and for every month that a convict appears by
such record to have faithfully observed the rules and requirements
of the prison, and not to have been subjected to punishment, there
shall, with the consent of the governor, be deducted from the term
of service of such convict four days. Every time any convict is pun-
ished the name of the offender, the offence, a full and detailed description
of the punishment, the time when the offence was committed, and when
punishment inflicted shall be recorded in a register provided for the pur-
pose. Satd register shall be monthly inspected by the board of directors of
the penitentiary and examined and reported upon bi-ennually by a joint
committee of the general assembly.

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