Chap. 246.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5021, 5043, and 5045 of the
Cade of Virginia, relating to allowances and transportation to prisoners on dis-
charge, payment of rewards for apprehension of convicts, and compensation
and bonus which may be paid certain prisoners; to further amend the Code of
Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5045-a, authorizing certain
prisoners’ funds to be invested in bonds of the United States; and to repeal
Section 5044 of the Code of Virginia relating to rewards for apprehension of
convicts. [S 88}

Approved March 16, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That section fifty hundred twenty-one, fifty hundred forty-three.
and fitty hundred forty-five of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted, and that the Code of Virginia be further amended by adding
thereto a new section numbered fifty hundred forty-five-a, which
amiended and new sections shall be as follows:

Section 5021. Allowance to felon or misdemeanant on discharge;
transportation.—The State Board of Corrections, in its discretion, may
allow any felon or misdemeanant, on his discharge, not exceeding ten
dollars, and may provide such person upon his request with transporta-
tion to the county or city where he was committed, or to such other point
in the State as may be approved by the Commissioner of Corrections.
Such person may also be furnished, if he need it, a suit of coarse clothing.

Section 5043. Reward for convict escaping; how paid.—If any
convict escape from the penitentiary, or from any penal institution under
the jurisdiction of the State Board of Corrections, the Board may offer
a reward for the apprehension and redelivery of such convict, not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars, to be paid out of amounts appropriated fér
the payment of criminal costs.

Section 5045. Tasking prisoners; compensation; bonus.—The
State Board of Corrections may establish a system of tasking prisoners
confined at any penal institution or farm operated by the Board as a part
of the State penal system when it can be done, and allow to any such
prisoner such reasonable compensation for work done beyond his task
as it determines; and in addition thereto may provide for the payment
of a bonus to any such prisoner who is assigned to employment in any
position of responsibility as determined by the Board the amount of such
bonus to be fixed by such Board not in excess of twenty-five cents a
day. The amount due any such prisoner shall be placed to his credit, and
paid him when he is discharged from imprisonment, or, if he request that
a portion, or all of it, be paid to his family or near relatives, the Board
may provide for such payment at any time during his imprisonment ; or
upon request of the prisoner, may permit him to receive payment, from
time to time, in provisions or other articles selected by him from a list
prepared by the Commissioner of Corrections. Such provisions and
articles shall be such as are or have been purchased by the respective
institutions for their own use, and shall be charged to the prisoner at cost.

Section 5045-a. Any portions of the funds held by the State Board
of Corrections, or held by any penal institution under its jurisdiction,
belonging to prisoners wherever confined, may, in the discretion of the
Board, be invested in bonds of the United States. Any income or 1n-
crement of increase received from such bonds may be used by the Board,
in its discretion, for the benefit of the prisoners under its care.

2. That section fifty hundred forty-four of the Code of Virginia
relating to rewards for apprehension of convicts 1s repealed.