Chap. 444.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4162 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved February 19, 1892, and as further amended by
an act approved May 5, 1903, and to repeal section 4163 of the Code of Vir-
ginia.

Approved December 12, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That scction
forty-one hundred and sixty-three of the Code of Virginia be, and is
hereby, repealed, and that section forty-one hundred and sixty-two of
the Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved February nineteenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and as further amended by act ap-
proved May fifth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 4162. The superintendent may purchase material and supplies for
the penitentiary and prison farm; monthly report of the superintend-
ent.—The respective superintendents shall, with the approval of the
board, and under such regulations as it may prescribe, purchase such ma-
terial and provisions as may be necessary for the penitentiary and prison
farm, of which they shall kecp an account showing separately the kind
and quantity of material and provisions purchased, and the price thereof.
The respective superintendents shall, on the first Monday in each month,
make a report to the board of his receipts from the hire of convicts, or
from any other source, and also of his disbursements during the past
month. ,

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