by prisoner; record of visit to be kept. It shall be unlawful for any bondsman, agent, clerk, or representative of any bondsman to enter a police precinct, jail, prisoner's dock, house of detention, justice of the peace court, or other place where persons in the custody of the law are detained in the State of West Virginia, for the purpose of obtaining employment as a bondsman, without heaving been previously called by a person so detained, or by some relative or other authorized person acting for or on behalf of the person so detained, and whenever any perrson engaged in the bonding business as principal, or as clerk, or representative of another, shall enter a police precinct, jail, prisoner's dock, house of detention, justice of the peace court, or other place where persons in the custody of the law are detained in the State of West Virginia, he shall forthwith give to the person in charge thereof his mission thtere, the name of the person calling him and requesting him to come to such place, and the same shall be recorded by the person in charge of the said place of detention and preserved as a public record, and the failure to give such information, or the failure of the person in charge of said place of detention to make and preserve such a record, shall constitute a violation of this article.
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