Chap. 155.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 931 of the Code of Virginia.
Approved April 15, 1903.

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

§ 931. Circuit and corporation courts to order jails erected and jails
and courthouses to be repaired.—When it shall appear to the circuit court
of any county or the corporation court of any city that there is no jai!
therein, or when it appears to such court, from the report of persons ap-
pointed to examine the jail or courthouse, or otherwise, that the jail or
courthouse of such county or city is insecure or out of repair, or of .erwise
insufficient, it shall be the duty of such court to award a rule, in the name
and on behalf of the Commonwealth against the supervisors of the said
county, or the members of the council of the said city, as the case may be,
to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not issue, command-
ing them to erect a jail for the said county or city, or to cause the jail or
courthouse of such county or city to be made secure, or put in good repair,
or rendered otherwise sufficient, as the case may be, and to proceed as in
other cases of mandamus, to cause the necessary work to be done.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.