Chap. 154.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5019, 5048 and 2091 of the
Code of Virginia, the former as heretofore amended, and to repeal section
5036 of the Code of Virginia. [S B 103]

Approved March 10, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion five thousand and thirty-six be and the same is hereby repealed
and that section five thousand and nineteen of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-four, and sections five thousand and forty-eight
and two thousand and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5019. The term of confinement in jail or in the peni-
tentiary for the commission of a crime shall commence and be
computed from the date of the final judgment which, in case of an
appeal, shall be that of the refusal of a writ of error or the affir-
mance of the judgment, but any person who may hereafter be
sentenced by any court to a term of confinement in the penitentiary,
or by any court or justice to a term of confinement in jail, for the
commission of a crime, or in jail for default of the payment of a
fine, shall have deducted from any such term all time actually spent
by such person in jail awaiting trial, or pending an appeal, and it
shall be the duty of the court or justice when entering the final
order in any such case to provide that such person so convicted
be given credit for the time so spent. But in no case shall a prisoner
be allowed credit for time not actually spent in confinement, and
in no case is a prisoner on bail to be regarded as in confinement for
the purposes of this statute. No such credit, however, shall be given
to any person who shall break jail or make an escape.

Section 5048. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the
State farm to procure, upon the most advantageous terms possible,
one male and two female bloodhounds of suitable breed, which he
shall keep on the penitentiary farm for breeding purposes. He
shall have them and their progeny properly cared for and trained
to track criminals. He shall, upon the order of the circuit court
or board of supervisors of any county, or upon the like order of
the corporation court, or the council of any city, furnish to the
sheriff of such county, or to the sergeant of such city, free of
charge, such bloodhounds as may be necessary and can be safely
spared from said farm. The expense of transporting such blood-
hounds shall be borne by the county or city ordering them. When-
ever the supply of such bloodhounds shall exceed the demand for
the same under the foregoing provisions of this section, the super-
intendent is authorized to sell the surplus ones to other parties, and
he shall account for the revenue derived therefrom as part of the
annual revenues of the State farm fund.

Section 2091. Whenever any person held to labor in the State
convict road force shall become sick he shall be attended by the
physician for the jail of such county on whose road he is working
at the time, or if there is no jail physician, then by the physician
for the poor of such county, whose fees shall be paid by the county
at such sum as may be agreed upon by the physician and the board
of supervisors. But, the superintendent of the penitentiary in his
discretion is authorized to employ physicians in the several localities
where the State convict road force camps are located to attend
prisoners needing medical attention, said physicians to be paid out
of the appropriation for medical care of convicts.