Chap. 295.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 881, code of Virginia, in refer-
ence to poor to be kept at poorhouse, and when and how assistance to be given
at their homes.

Approved February 10, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and eighty-one, code of Virginia, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

$851. Poor to be kept at poorhouse; when and how assistance given
at their homes.—Every person to be provided for by the overseers shal]
be sent to and kept at the place of general reception of the poor to be
supported; and all persons kept at such places who are able to work
shall be made to do so. In any county having no place of general re-
ception for its poor, persons requiring assistance may be provided for
by the overseer of the district in which the pauper resides by and with
the consent of the board of supervisors of the county. And in any county
the overseer of any district, by and with the consent of the board of su-
pervisors of the county, may provide assistance for any person or the fam-
ly of any person who is unable to support himself or family at his
ylace of residence, when it would be injudicious that such person or
amily should be moved to the place of general reception. The evidence
if the consent of said board of supervisors shall be an order of record made at
ts regular or called meeting, setting forth the extent of such assistance. The
expenses attending the keeping of such poor outside of the place of
reneral reception shall be certified to the board of supervisors by the
»verscer providing such assistance, and be provided for in their annual
levy: provided, however, it shall be the duty of the board of supervi-
sors to provide for each magisterial district a contingent fund not to ex-
ceed fifty dollars for any one year, which shall be under the control of
the overseer of the poor and the member of the board from each dis-
trict, to be used for cases of emergency.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.