Chap. 149.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3532 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, as to the fees of jailers, for feeding
prisoners. [H B 98}

Approved March 13, 191S.

1. Be it enacted by tha general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-five hundred and thirty-two of the Code of Virginia, as
pepe otore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as

ollows:

Section 3532. To a jailer:

For receiving a person in jail when first committed.......... $0.50
For keeping and supporting him therein, for each day........ 80
But where there are as many as three and less than ten prisoners

In jail, for each.......... cee ce cee eee cee eee rene eenes .56
Where there are ten or more prisoners in jail, for each up to

and including twenty-five.............. 2. cece eee reas 48
For each prisoner in excess of twenty-five, up to and including 40

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For each prisoner in excess of fifty, up to and including one

Hundred ...... cece cece cece eee eee ee teres ee eeee 35
And for each prisoner in excess of one hundred............. .28

But no payment shall be made out of the treasury for receiving,
keeping, and supporting any prisoner, committed to jail for a
violation of the ordinance of any city or town or who is in jail under
@ capias pro fine issued for a failure to pay a fine imposed for a
violation of such ordinance.

2. That owing to the present high prices of provisions, the
jailers of the State of Virginia are unable to furnish to the prisoners
at the present prices allowed by law, sufficient food without a loss
to such jailers, this act shall be deemed an emergency act, and be in
force from its passage.

3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are here-
by repealed.