Chap. 275.—An ACT authorizing experts in making mental tests to act as
members of commissions in proceedings for commitment of feeble-minded
persons to the State colonies and also to testify before such commis.
sions. [H B 156]

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for any judge of the circuit court of a county or
of the corporation court of a city, or a justice of the peace of any
county or city, before whom any person may be brought on a warrant
charging him or her with being feeble-minded within the meaning
of the law, to summon, when practicable, an expert skilled in mak-
ing the Binet-Simon or other approved mental tests, who is recog-
nized and approved by the secretary of the State board of charities
and corrections or the superintendent of one of the State colonies
for the feeble-minded, to act as a member of any commission for
determining the mental condition of the person so charged in place
of one of the two physicians now required by law as members of such
commission; or to testify before any court or commission in pro-
ceedings involving the question of feeble-mindedness within the
meaning of the Jaw, and for such services the expert shall receive
the same compensation allowed physicians for serving on commis-
sions of lunacy, or for testifying in court in criminal cases involving
Insanity.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are to that
extent hereby repealed.