Chap. 139.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4950 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to when and how persons held in custody, or under a capias pro
fine, may be hired out to pay fine and costs. [S B 143]

Approved March 11, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-nine hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia, relating to when
and how persons held in custody, or under a capias pro fine, may be
hired out to pay fine and costs, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 4950. If any person be sentenced to confinement in jail
until he pay a fine and the costs of prosecution, or be confined in jail
under a capias pro fine, the sheriff of the county or the sergeant of the
corporation in whose jail he is confined, may, with the assent in writ-
ing of the prisoner, hire him for such length of time, not exceeding
three months, as may be agreed on, to any person who will agree to
pay the whole fine and costs.