CHAP. 229.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2868 of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to jailors and jails in the Commonwealth. [H B 381]

Approved March 23, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-eight hundred and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2868. The sheriff of each county and the sergeant of each
city shall be keeper of the jail thereof; except that the jail in the city
of Williamsburg may be used as the jail, and the sergeant of the said
city be the jailor, of the county of James City as well as of the said
city of Williamsburg; and the jail and jailor of the county of Frederick
shall also be the jail and jailor of the city of Winchester; and the
jail or jailor of the county of Augusta shall be the jail or jailor of the
city of Staunton. The jail of the city of Fredericksburg may be used
as a jail for the circuit court of the county of Spotsylvania. The jail
of each county and city shall be the jail of every court established
therein by law. The jail of any county or city, in which the Court
of Appeals may sit, may be used as a jail for the said court.