Chap. 274.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
vide in cities containing forty thousand inhabitants or more for the
appointment of matron for the jails, and to fix their compensation and
provide how the same shall be paid, approved March 12, 1908.

(H B 155]
Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing forty thousand
inhabitants or more for the appointment of matrons for the jails,
and to fix their compensation and provide how the same shall be
paid, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 1. Jn each city of this Commonwealth containing forty
thousand inhabitants or more there shall be two matrons for each
jail, who shall, subject to the supervision and control of the jailer,
have charge of the female prisoners in such jails. One matron shall
be on duty in the jail from eight o’clock in the morning to six o’clock
in the evenin of each and every day of the year, and the other
matron shall he on duty from eight o’clock in the evening to six
o'clock in the morning of each and every day of the vear.

Sec. 2. In each city of this Commonwealth containing between
twenty thousand and forty thousand inhabitants there sha‘l be one
matron for each jail, and such matron shall be on duty in said Jail
from eight o’clock in the evening to seven o’clock in the morning
of each and every day of the year.

Sec. 8. No male prisoner or employee, except the jail physician
or jailer, shall be permitted in the quarters for female prisuners
between the hours of eight o’clock in the evening and seven o’elock
in the morning.

Sec. 4. The matrons for jails provided for by this act shall be
appointed by the judges of the corporation courts of said cities
having criminal jurisdiction, whose term of office shall be four
years, unless sooner removed from office by the judge of such cor-
poration court for cause. All vacancies shall be filled in the same
manner.

Sec. 5. Each of the jail matrons appointed under this act shall
receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, to be paid in
monthly installments, out of the treasury of the city for which she
is appointed. But the provisions of this act shall not be operative
until ratified or sanctioned by the council or other governing bodv
of the respective cities of this Commonwealth.

Sec. 6. All acts, parts of acts or charter provisions in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed.