CHAP. 414.—An ACT providing for deduction from the term of service of
persons sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary, of the
number of days such person may have been held in a ar or or mon
jail because of quarantine regulations.

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever any person is detained in the jail of any city or county
in this State, after record of his conviction and sentence to serve
a term in the penitentiary has been sent to the superintendent of
the penitentiary, because of regulations for the prevention of
infectious or contagious diseases, the superintendent of the peni-
tentiary shall deduct from the time of service of such person
the number of days he was so held in quarantine, in the same
manner as deduction is now made as a reward for good prisot
behavior.

2. The superintendent of the penitentiary shall, once it
every three months, report to the governor in writing a list o
all prisoners from whose terms such deductions have been made
giving the name, prison, number of days deducted in each case