Chap. 139.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to
amend and re-enact section 2872 of the Code of Virginia,” approved
March 11, 1922. [S B 85]

Approved March 29, 1928.

1. Be it énacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact section twenty-
eight hundred and seventy-two of the Code of Virginia,” ap-
proved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2872. When court may adopt jail of another county
or city—When a county or city is without a sufficient jail, or
its jail is to be removed, rebuilt, or repaired, the court thereof
may adopt as its jail the jail of another county or city, until it
can obtain a sufficient jail. All persons committed or to be com-
mitted to the jail of the first mentioned county or city, at or
after such adoption, and before a sufficient jail be so obtained,
shall be conveved to the jail so adopted. In any case should it
become necessary or expedient for the safe-keeping of any
prisoner, or for other good cause, a court or the judge thereof
in vacation, may commit such prisoner to a jail other than that
located in his county or city; and the sheriff or sergeant in mak-
ing his account for the board of such prisoner or prisoners as
provided in section thirty-five hundred and ten of the Code, as
amended, shall include such prisoner or prisoners in such ac-
count, as if such prisoner or prisoners had actually been com-
mitted from his county or city, and the judge of the circuit,
corporation or hustings court of the county or city in which such
prisoner or prisoners were committed as aforesaid, shall certify
such account to the auditor of public accounts for payment out
of the treasury, as provided in section forty-nine hundred and
sixty-one of the Code; provided, however, that the authorities
of the county or city from which the prisoner is sent shall be
responsible for any damage done by him to the jail of the county
or city in which such prisoner may be confined. Provided, how-
ever, on account of the dangerous character of the prisoners
committed to the jail of the county of Henrico the sheriff of
said county is hereby authorized and empowered to render his
accounts to the various circuit and corporation courts of this
Commonwealth at the rates prescribed in section thirty-five
hundred and ten of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act
approved March eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, re-
gardless of the number of prisoners he may have in jail at the
time such accounts are prepared.