Chap. 374.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act en-
titled: An act to authorize the superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary to
lease or purchase a farm, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care
and employment of the convicts, approved January 22, 1894, as amended by an
act approved March 5, 1900, as amended by an act approved April 2, 1902,
and as amended by an act approved April 24, 1903.

Approved March 14, 1908.

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 superinten-
dent of the Virginia pentitentiary to lease or purchase a farm and to
erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and employment of convicts,
approved January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
as amended by an act approved March fifth, nineteen hundred and two,
as amended by an act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred
and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: :

Whereas, the cells of the Virginia penitentiary are greatly over-
crowded, 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
be a surgeon for said farm appointed by the board, whose compensation
shall be at the rate of fifty dollars per month and board for himself and
horse. A superintendent appointed by the board, whose compensation
shall be one thousand dollars per annum and board for himself and family,
and who shall have charge of the cultivation of the farm, and shall per-
form such other duties as may be assigned him, all under the direction
of the board.

The said superintendent, subject to the approval of the board, shall
appoint and may remove such guards as may be necessary, whose compen-
sation shall be thirty dollars per month and their board. The pay of
the said superintendent, surgeon and guards shall be monthly upon the
certificate of the superintendent, on warrant of the auditor of public
accounts.

§3. All laws for the government of the pentitentiary shall be in force
on said farm, so far as applicable, and the same discipline enforced there
as in 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 year, charging the latter with the value of the stock, tools, im-
plements, 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
buildings 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 the
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 treasurer, upon the order
of the superintendent of the penitentiary, approved by the board.