Chap. 373.—An ACT to transfer certain appropriations to the State Board of
Corrections, and to appropriate to the State Board of Corrections certain funds
in addition thereto, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of certain acts
providing for and relating to the Department of Corrections, and the State
Board of Corrections, and to provide for the payment and disbursement of such
funds. [S B 3]

Approved April 1, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. Disposition and Control of Certain Funds Transferred
to the State Board of Corrections.—The disposition and control of all
appropriations for the biennium beginning July first, nineteen hundred
and forty-two, made for and standing to the credit of the State Industrial
Farm for Women, the State Penitentiary Farm, the State Farm for
Defective Misdemeanants, the Penitentiary, the Industrial Department of
the Penitentiary, the Southampton Penitentiary Farm, the State Convict
Road Force, and the State Prison Board, are hereby transferred to and
vested in the State Board of Corrections, subject to the condition, how-
ever, that no part of the said funds shall be used for any purpose other
than that for which appropriated except in accordance with the pro-
visions of the respective acts by which such appropriations are made.

Section 2. Payments and Disbursements.—All payments and dis-
bursements from the said funds shall be made by the State Treasurer on
warrants of the Comptroller issued upon vouchers signed by the Com-
missioner of Corrections, or by such other person or persons as may be
designated by the State Board of Corrections for such purpose.

Section 3. If no other provision be made for the payment of the
costs of providing for the care and custody of persons accused or con-
victed of offenses against the laws of the Commonwealth and witnesses
held in cases to which the Commonwealth is a party, when confined in
any prison farm maintained and operated by the Commonwealth through
the State Board of Corrections, such costs, including therein only the
reasonable costs of guarding and providing necessary housing, main-
tenance and administrative expenses, food, clothing, medicine and
medical attention for such prisoners, taking into consideration the value,
if any, of the labor required of State prisoners, and shall be paid by the
State Treasurer, out of funds appropriated in the general appropriation
act for criminal charges, upon warrants of the Comptroller issued upon
vouchers signed by the Commissioner of Corrections, or by such other
person or persons as may be designated by the State Board of Corrections
for such purpose. e

2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect on July
first, nineteen hundred and forty-two.