Chap. 400.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 125, acts of assembly, ses-
sion 1895-’96, entitled “an act to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties
and cities of this State to report to courts of their respective counties and
cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails,” approved
January 23, 1896.

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter one
hundred and twenty-five, acts of assembly, session eighteen hundred and
ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled “an act to re-
quire sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State to re-
port to courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prison-
ers confined in their respective jails,” approved January twenty-third.
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

1. The sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State
shall, on the first day of each term of the circuit and corporation courts,
make a report to the judge thercof showing the number of prisoners in
jail on that day, which report shall show the name, date of commitment,
offense, and sentence of cach prisoner, and said report shall be entered on
the order book of the said court. .

2. This act shall be in force froin and after February first, nineteen
hundred and four.