Chap. 517.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3510 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as last amended by chapter 354 of the acts of the general assembly ct
1920, page 529, relating to pay of jailers for feeding prisoners, and to pro-
vide that no such payments be made until approved by the commissioner of
public welfare; and to provide that the commissioner of public welfare may
transfer prisoners from a jail to a hospital, clinic, State, city or county farm,
road camp, et cetera. [fH B 236]

Approved March 28, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-five hundred and ten of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by
chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the acts of the general assem-
bly of nineteen hundred and twenty, page five hundred and twenty-
nine, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3510. To a jailer:

For receiving a person in jail when first committed, fifty cents.

For keeping and supporting him therein, for each day, one dollar.

But when there are as many as three and less than ten prisoners in
jail, for each, seventy-five cents.

Where there are ten or more prisoners in jail, for each up to and
including twenty-five, sixty cents.

For each prisoner in excess of twenty-five, up to and including
fifty, fifty cents.

For each prisoner in excess of fifty, up to and including one hun-
dred, twenty-five cents.

For each prisoner in excess of one hundred, twenty-five cents.

But no payment shall be made out of the treasury for receiving,
keeping and supporting any prisoner, committed to jail for a violation
of the ordinance of any city or town who is in jail under capias pro
fine issued for a failure to pay a fine imposed for violation of such
ordinance.

Provided, further, that all bills submitted under this act shall,
prior to payment, be reviewed by the commissioner of public welfare,
who shall have the power to transfer any jail inmate whose sentence
is final from a jail to any State or city farm, State industrial school or
convict road camp; provided, nothing in this section shall interfere
with the control and maintenance of the convict road force, State
prison farm, State industrial schools, or State penitentiary, as provided
by law.