Chap. 396.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4960 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to compensation for officers for services in certain cases where no
other compensation is provided, and to amend and re-enact section 2860 of the
Code of Virginia, relating to records to be kept by jailors; how time deducted
or added. [S B 351]

Approved March 29, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-nine hundred and sixty of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4960. A sheriff or other officer, for traveling out of his
county or corporation to execute process in a criminal case, and doing
any act in the service thereof, for which no other compensation is
provided, shall receive therefor, out of the treasury, such compensa-
tion as the court from which the process issued may certify to be
reasonable. When in a criminal case an orficer or any person renders
any other service, for which no specific compensation is provided, the
court in which such case is, may allow therefor what 1t deems reason-
able, and such allowance shall be paid out of the treasury from the
appropriation for criminal charges on the certificate of the court stating
the nature of the service. This section shall not prevent any payment
under section twenty-one hundred and seventy-six, which could have
been made if this section had not been enacted.

Provided, however, that the amount of compensation to officers
for execution of process, outside of the respective counties of such
officers, shall not exceed the fees or allowances now provided by law
for the execution of process within a county including the provision
for the allowance of mileage for officers and prisoners within a county ;
and, provided further, that not more than eight cents per mile shall be
allowed for officers using automobiles for travel, irrespective of the
number of guards or prisoners conveyed in automobiles.

It is further provided that no compensation shall be allowed hos-
pitals for the treatment of prisoners unless application shall have been
made to the superintendent of the penitentiary, or to the superintendent
of the State farm, for the admission of prisoners to the hospital. wards
of said institutions and such application refused, unless the disease, or
wound, or accident, from which the prisoner is suffering is of such an
emergency kind that immediate treatment in the hospital is necessary,
and then only such amounts shall be allowed to the hospitals as shall
have been incurred before it is practicable to remove the prisoner from
the hospital to one of the institutions above mentioned.

Section 2860. The jailor shall keep a record describing each person
committed to jail, the terms of confinement, for what offense or cause
he was committed, and when received into jail. The jailor shall also
keep a record of each convict, and for every month that any convict
appears by such record to have faithfully observed the rules and re-
quirements of the jail while confined therein, and not to have been
subjected to discipline for violation of same, there shall, with the con-
sent of the judge, be deducted from the term of confinement of such
convict ten days. The time so deducted shall be allowed to each con-
vict for such time as he is confined in jail, and for each violation of
said rules prescribed as herein provided the time so deducted shall be
added until it equals the full sentence imposed upon such convict by
the court.