Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3. 4, and 5 of an act en-
titled an act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginian penitentiary to
lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care
and employment of convicts, approved January 22, 1894, as amended by an act
approved March 5, 1900, as amended by an act approved April 2, 1902.

Approved April 24, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two, three, four, and five of an act entitled an act to authorize the super-
intendent of the Virginia penitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and
to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of con-
victs, approved January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, as amended by an act approved March fifth, nineteen hundred, as
amended by an act approved April second, nineteen hundred and two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Whereas, the cells of the Virginia penitentiary are greatly over-
vrowded, there being less than two hundred cells for over twelve hundred
male convicts; and,

Whereas, several hundred of the convicts are unfit for service in the
prison, but could be made useful in the cultivation of a farm: therefore,

$2. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there shall
te a surgeon for said farm appointed by the board, whose compensation
rhall be at the rate of fifty dollars per month and board for himself and
orse: a superintendent appointed by the board, whose compensation shall
ae 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 board.

The said superintendent, subject to the approval of the beard, shall
appoint, and may remove, such guards as may be necessary, whose com-
}*osation shall be twenty-five dollars per month and their board. The
Tay of the said superintendent, surgeon, and guards shall be monthly upon
the certificate of the superintendent, on the warrant of the auditor of
Publie accounts.

$3. All laws for the government of the penitentiary shall be in force
“n said farm, so far as applicable, and the same discipline enforced there
é:n the penitentiary.

$4. The said superintendent shall, at the end of each fiscal year, take
an inventory and make out a general account between the State and farm
for such vear, charging the latter with the value of the stoek. tools, im-
jlements, materials and supplies, including provisions and clothing on
hand at the commencement of the year, and the cost of the same bought
during the year, the salaries of officers and guards, and all other expenses
of the farm; and crediting it with work done by the convicts on the build-
ings and permanent fixtures on the farm, the value of the stock, tools,
implements, and so forth, on hand at the end of the year, the value of all
products furnished the penitentiary, all moneys received for sale of such
products, and all other debits and credits necessary to show a true account
of the farm with the State.

§ 5. All costs of lease, erection of buildings, and other expenses of said
farm, not otherwise provided for, shall be paid out of the net earnings
of the penitentiary, by warrants drawn on the treasury, upon the order
of the superintendent of the penitentiary, approved by the board.

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