CHAP. 429.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to re-
quire sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State
to report to the courts of their respective counties and cities the num-
ber of prisoners confined in their respective jails, approved January
23, 1896, as amended by an act approved December 10, zl

CH 53.)

Approved March 21, 1916. .

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia; That
an act entitled an act to require sheriffs and sergeants of the
counties and cities of this State to report to the courts of their
respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined
in their respective jails, approved December tenth, nineteen
hundred and three, 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 thereof showing
the number of prisoners in jail on that day, which report shall
show the name, date or commitments, offences, and sentence of
each prisoner, and the judge of such court, after examining the
said report, shall enter an order directing the clerk to file the
same in the clerk’s office of said court.