Chap. 31.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3,
1882, entitled an act to authorize the corporation of Fredericksburg to
establish a poorhouse and grounds outside of its corporation limits.

Approved January 16, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act approved March three, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two, entitled an act to authorize the corporation of Fred-
ericksburg to establish a poorhouse and eronntls outside of its
corporate limits, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows:

§ 1. That the corporation of Fredericksburg be and is hereby
authorized and empowered to establish a poorhouse and grounds
outside of its corporate limits, in the county of Spotsylvania,
and to acquire from time to time and hold for this purpose
such quantity of land (not exceeding fifty acres) as may be
needfal. :

§ 2. Offences committed upon said land may be prosecuted,
tried and punished before the courts, justices and officials of
and within said corporation, as if committed within the limits
of the same.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.