Forced labor
| An ACT to Authorize the Governor to Hire out the Convicts |
| An ACT directing the governor to hire not more than fifty nor less than twenty-five convicts to president Upper Appomattox canal company. |
| An ACT to furnish convict labor to the counties of Wythe, Carroll, and Grayson, to work upon the Raleigh and Grayson turnpike and Wythe and Grayson turnpike roads. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty of chapter fifty-one of Code of 1873, relating to beggars and vagrants. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to furnish convict labor for the construction of the Richmond and Tide-water railroad. |
| An ACT for the relief of the county of Bedford from further penalties |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled “an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony approved February 27, 1906. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary, for the commission of felony, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and sixteen. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to prisoners on the State convict road force. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact Title 37 of the Code of 1950 containing sections numbered 37-1 through 37-260, the title and sections relating to insane, epileptic, feebleminded, inebriate and drug addicts; the Department and Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals; and the State Hospital Board; to amend the Code of 1950 by adding in Title 37 sections numbered 37-1.1, 37-34.1, 37-61.1, 37-71.1, 37-110.1, 37-126.1, 37-132.1, 37-185.1, 37-153.1, 37-254.1, 37-257.1 and 37-257.2 relating to the same matters and to repeal §§ 37-43, 37-82 and 37-179 of the Code of 1950. |
| AN ACT to repeal §§ 3-189 through 8-141, and 3-143 through 3-150, of the Code of Virginia, relating to production and sale of lime, marl and ground oyster shells by the Board of Agriculture and Immigration; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 8-139.1 through 3-139.5, to provide what lime grinding plants, and farms connected therewith, shall be operated by the Board of Agriculture and Immigration, to provide for working convicts in the production of lime grinding and farm operations in connection therewith, to fix the standards applicable to lime so produced, to provide for the sale of such lime and farm products, and to fix the cost of such lime and farm products. |
| An ACT authorizing the Governor to hire out able-bodied Male Convicts in the Penitentiary, to Work in Coal-pits. |
| An ACT to authorize the use of convict labor on the grounds of the State Agricultural Society. |
| An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the public grounds of Richmond city |
| An ACT instructing the Governor to hire out the convicts at the Granite Company’s works to Messrs. Mason, Shannahan and Hoge, for the sum of thirty-five cents per day in addition to their maintenance. |
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