Chap. 163.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4956 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to allowance to jail physicians, and furnishing medicine and clothing
for persons in jail, so as to authorize counties to supplement, to a certain
extent, the allowance for jail physicians. [H B 374]

Approved March 24, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-nine hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4956. A court may appoint a physician to attend prisoners
in its jail, and make him a reasonable allowance, not exceeding seventy-
five cents per day for each day he attends a patient. When he attends
more than one patient a day, there may be allowed fifty cents per day
for each additional patient. The board of supervisors or city council,
of any county or city may, in its discretion, supplement such allowance
to the extent of two dollars and twenty-five cents per day for the first
patient attended on any day. A court may, when a person in its jail
charged with or convicted of an offense is unable to provide himself
with necessary medicines, or with sufficient clothing, allow for such
medicines ; and may direct the jailor to provide him clothing, and allow
therefor not exceeding ten dollars in one year. It may also make an
allowance, not to exceed twenty-five dollars, as compensation to any
physician or analytical chemist for making an analysis to discover

»oison in any criminal case. Allowances under this section except the
supplemental allowance herein provided for, shall be paid out of the
‘reasury, except that no allowance shall be made or paid for medicines
furnished such prisoner unless the account therefor is certified by the
physician for the jail to be correct. Where any supplemental allowance
is made by the board of supervisors of any county such supplemental
allowance shall be paid out of the county treasury, and where clothing
is obtained for prisoners worked in the chain gang of any city or town,
such clothing shall be paid for out of the treasury of such county, city or
town.