Chap. 207.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of chapter 42 of the Code
of Virginia, 1887, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia,
approved February 23, 1898, and entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section
929 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to jail inspection,” and allowing certain
compensation for such inspection at the jail in the city of Richmond, Virginia.

Approved March 15, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
nine hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 929. The board of supervisors and jail physician, if any, of each
county in this State, once every three months, shall inspect the jail of
said county. In every city having a corporation court with a jail sepa-
rate from the county jail the judge of the corporation court shall, once
every three months, appoint a committee of three discreet freeholders,
one of whom shall be a physician, whose duty it shall be to inspect said
jail. The judge of the county court shall administer an oath to the
board of supervisors, and the judge of the corporation court shall admin-
ister an oath to the committee appointed by him, which oath shall be as
follows: “You shall report to the court as to the jail in this county (or
city), the size thereof, the number of apartments, and its state of condi-
tion, whether it is in all respects such as required by section nine hundred
and twenty-six, and if not, in what it is deficient. You shall also dili-
gently examine and truly report whether or not the jailer has during
the last three months faithfully performed the duties required of him in
section nine hundred and twenty “eight, and if he has not, in what respect
has he failed to perform the same.” The said inspectors shall make
quarterly inspections and report as ahove provided, and shall be fur-
nished with a copy of said oath and of said sections. If they make a re-
port which fails in any respect to conform to said oath, it shall be reeom-
mitted to them until they fully report upon all of said matters. The said
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committee of jail inspectors shall receive no compensation for their ser-
vices: provided, however, that the judge of the hustings court of the city
of Richmond may allow to said committee or inspectors appointed for the
jail of the city of Richmond a reasonable compensation, not to exceed ten
dollars to each inspector for the services rendered at each inspection, the
said sum so allowed to be paid out of the treasury of the said city. If it is
deemed necessary by said board of supervisors in counties where there is
no jail physician, they shall appoint a physician to accompany them, who
shall give his opinion as to the sanitary condition of the jail, which opin-
ion shall be embodied in the report. The supervisors shall not hold a
special meeting for the purpose of making the inspection herein provided
for, but at meetings held for other purposes. Said supervisors and jail
physician shall receive no additional pay for the services hereby im-
posed.

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