Chap. 784.—An ACT prescribing certain additional duties to be performed by
the superintendent of the poor in Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond,
Clarke, and Fauquier counties.

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the su-
perintendents of the poor of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nanse-
mond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties, in addition to the duties now
imposed upon them by law, shall receive, control, manage, and care
for such persons as shall be sentenced by the county courts or ‘jus-
tices of the peace of their respective counties to work upon the
county farms of their respective counties subject to the rules and
regulations prescribed and set forth for their control, and the control
of such persons so sentenced by the board of supervisors of said coun-
ties respectively; and in the annual reports of the said superintend-
ents of the poor to the boards of supervisors of their respective coun-
ties under section eight hundred and seventy-two of the code of Vir-
ginia they shall render an account of the number of such persons
received, the costs of caring for the same, which costs may be included
with the costs of caring for the poor, and the income derived from
the labor of such persons.

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