Chap. 489.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an
act In relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and
their custody, approved February 27, 1896.

Approved February 24, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That sections
one and three of an act entitled an act in relation to commitment of
minors to Prison association of Virginia, and their custody, approved
February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be, and the
sume are hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. That no person shall be committed to or received into the cus-
tody of the Prison association of Virginia after such person shall have
reached the age of seventeen vears; nor shall any person be held or
detained by the said Prison association of Virginia after such person
shall have reached the age of twenty-one years.

§ 3. Jurisdiction of all habeas corpus and other proceedings to test
the right of said Prison association of Virginia to retain custody of such
minors as shall be committed or surrendered or received into its custody
shall be had exclusively before the judge of the circuit court of the city
of Richmond, in term time or vacation: provided, that in the absence of
said judge from said city such proceedings shall be had before the judge
of the law and equity court.

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