Chap. 581.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 790 of an act en-
titled an act to authorize the superintendent of the penitentiary to lease or
purchase a farm and ercct thereon suitable buildings for the care and employ-
ment of convicts, approved March 5, 1900, so as to provide for board for the
surgeon and his horse, and an increase in the compensation of the manager and
provide board for himself and family at said farm.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section two,
chapter seven hundred and nincty, of the acts of eighteen hundred and
ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, as amended by an act approved March
fifth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§ 2. There shall be a surgeon for said farm appointed by the gover-
nor, whose compensation shall be at the rate of fifty dollars per month
and hoard for himself and horse; a manager appointed by the governor
on the recommendation of the superintendent, whose compensation shall
be sixty dollars per month and board for himself, and who shall have
charge of the cultivation of the farm, and shall perform such other duties
as may be assigned him, all under the direction of the superintendent ;
and such guards as may be necessary, appointed by the superintendent.
Their compensation shall be twenty-five dollars per month and their
board.

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