Chap. 313.—An ACT to amend section 3027 of the Code of Virginia, and to
repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact 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
to provide how the same shall be paid, approved March 12, 1908, approved
March 16, 1918. [H B 94]

Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty hundfed and twenty-seven of the Code be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3027. Matrons for jails in cities ; how appointed ; salary.

Sec. 1. In each city of this Commonwealth containing forty thou-
sand inhabitants or more there shall be appointed in the discretion
of the judge of the court, one or more matrons for each jail who
shall, subject to the supervision and control of the jailer, have charge
of the female prisoners in such jails. Where there are two matrons,
one matron shall be on duty in the jail from eight o’clock in the morn-
ing until six o’clock in the evening of each and every day of the year,
and the other matron shall be on duty from eight o’clock in the evening
to six o’clock in the morning of each day of the year, but where there
is only one matron she shall serve from eight o’clock in the evening
until six o’clock in the morning.

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

Sec. 3. No person except the- jail physician or jailer shall be per-
nitted in the quarters for female prisoners between the hours of eight
n the evening and seven in the morning unless accompanied by the
natron.

Sec. 4. Matrons of the jails shall be appointed by the judges of
he corporation courts of said cities having criminal jurisdiction; said
natrons shall serve for four years unless sooner removed from office
»y the judge of such corporation court for cause. All vacancies shall
ye filled in the same manner as original appointments. .

5. Each of the jail matrons appointed under this act shall receive
1 salary of not less than six hundred dollars per annum and shall
9 paid in monthly installments out of the treasury of the city for
which she was appointed.

6. The judges of the circuit courts are hereby authorized to ap-
point matrons in the jails of the counties and in cities of less than
wenty thousand inhabitants, upon the request of the supervisors of
the counties or of the councils of the cities.

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