Chap. 143.—An ACT to promote and encourage Immigration into the
State of Virginia,

Passed March 3, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be appointed by the governor of Virginia, on the
first Monday ot April of each and every year, three fit and
proper persons, who shall be a corporation, under the style
of Board of Immigration.

2. It shall be the duty of said board to settle upon and
carry into: operation a practical plan for the introduction of
sober and industrious emigrants, with their families, from
Europe, and especially from Scotland and England, into this
state; to open correspondence with emigration agencies and
steamship companics in Europe; to cause to be published
such information as will fully show the natural resources of
the state—its soil, climate and mineral wealth and produc-
tions—and also the demand for labor, and the inducements
which Virginia offers as a home to the emigrant; to cause
correct and accurate intelligence to be furnished to emigrants
desiring to remove to this country; to aid and assist them,
as far as possible, in their removal to this state; to make suit-
able arrangements to receive immigrants upon their arrival,
and transport them to-their destination or place of employ-
ment; and generally to adopt, establish and organize such

lans and measures-as will tend to secure or facilitate the in-
rroduction of foreign labor into this state.
8. Said board shall not introduce or aid in introducing into
this state, persons who would be likely to become chargeable
to any county or town as paupers.

4, Said board shal] appoint a fit and proper person, who
shall be known as the “commissioner of immigration,” whose
duties and salary shall be prescribed by said board, and who
shall be subject to removal by said board. The said board
shall have power to appoint all necessary clerks and agents;
to prescribe their duties, and fix their salaries.

». It shall further be the duty of the said board to report
annually to the general assembly a full account of their acts
and doings, under the provisions of this act.

6. If any person residing within this state shall receive
laborers through the instrumentality of said board, such
person shall pay to the said board a bonus of five dollars tor
each male laborer over the ave of sixteen years, and two dollars
for each unmarried female over the age ‘of e1ehteen. years, 80
furnished. Said bonus shall in no case be charged by the
employer against the employee, under a penalty of fitty dol-
lars in each case; to be recovered by suit, in the name of' the
commonwealth, against such employer: atich recov ery to be
paid over to said*board and accounted for.

7. If the said board shall make any advance to any immi-
grant laborer in the payment of passage money, or if said
boar d shall be subjected to any outlay in lodging or feeding
such laborer upon his arrival in this country, or in transport-
ing him to the place of his destination or employment—in
each and all of such cases, the amount so advanced to such
laborer, or expended in his behalf, shall be a charge against
him, and a lien upon the first wages due to him by his em-
ployer: and it shall be the duty of the said employer, atter
being notified by said board of said charge against. said
laborer, to pay over to the said board, out of said first wages,
the sum so advanced by said board, and charged against said
laborer. Said board, on the failure or retusal ot the said
employer to pay such sum out of the first wages as they tall
due, and after notice as aforesaid, may have an action for
such sum, and recover the same from such employer, whether
he shall have paid the said wages to the laborer or not.

8. In no case shall the immigrant laborer. or the employer
of the immigrant laborer, be charged by the said board, or
any of its agents, any greater or ‘other sum than is allowed
by the provisions of this act.

9. Said board shall have the right and authority to receive
donations or loans of money. All expenses attending the
operations of said board, including the salaries of' its officers
and agents, and the actual expenses of the members of said
board in attending to the business of the same, shall be paid
out of such donations or loans, and the tind mentioned in
sections six and seven of this act. In no event shall the
operations of said board be a charge upon the treasury of
the state. r

10. This act shall be in force from its passage,
Chap. 143.—An ACT to promote and encourage Immigration into the
State of Virginia,

Passed March 3, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be appointed by the governor of Virginia, on the
first Monday ot April of each and every year, three fit and
proper persons, who shall be a corporation, under the style
of Board of Immigration.

2. It shall be the duty of said board to settle upon and
carry into: operation a practical plan for the introduction of
sober and industrious emigrants, with their families, from
Europe, and especially from Scotland and England, into this
state; to open correspondence with emigration agencies and
steamship companics in Europe; to cause to be published
such information as will fully show the natural resources of
the state—its soil, climate and mineral wealth and produc-
tions—and also the demand for labor, and the inducements
which Virginia offers as a home to the emigrant; to cause
correct and accurate intelligence to be furnished to emigrants
desiring to remove to this country; to aid and assist them,
as far as possible, in their removal to this state; to make suit-
able arrangements to receive immigrants upon their arrival,
and transport them to-their destination or place of employ-
ment; and generally to adopt, establish and organize such

lans and measures-as will tend to secure or facilitate the in-
rroduction of foreign labor into this state.
8. Said board shall not introduce or aid in introducing into
this state, persons who would be likely to become chargeable
to any county or town as paupers.

4, Said board shal] appoint a fit and proper person, who
shall be known as the “commissioner of immigration,” whose
duties and salary shall be prescribed by said board, and who
shall be subject to removal by said board. The said board
shall have power to appoint all necessary clerks and agents;
to prescribe their duties, and fix their salaries.

». It shall further be the duty of the said board to report
annually to the general assembly a full account of their acts
and doings, under the provisions of this act.

6. If any person residing within this state shall receive
laborers through the instrumentality of said board, such
person shall pay to the said board a bonus of five dollars tor
each male laborer over the ave of sixteen years, and two dollars
for each unmarried female over the age ‘of e1ehteen. years, 80
furnished. Said bonus shall in no case be charged by the
employer against the employee, under a penalty of fitty dol-
lars in each case; to be recovered by suit, in the name of' the
commonwealth, against such employer: atich recov ery to be
paid over to said*board and accounted for.

7. If the said board shall make any advance to any immi-
grant laborer in the payment of passage money, or if said
boar d shall be subjected to any outlay in lodging or feeding
such laborer upon his arrival in this country, or in transport-
ing him to the place of his destination or employment—in
each and all of such cases, the amount so advanced to such
laborer, or expended in his behalf, shall be a charge against
him, and a lien upon the first wages due to him by his em-
ployer: and it shall be the duty of the said employer, atter
being notified by said board of said charge against. said
laborer, to pay over to the said board, out of said first wages,
the sum so advanced by said board, and charged against said
laborer. Said board, on the failure or retusal ot the said
employer to pay such sum out of the first wages as they tall
due, and after notice as aforesaid, may have an action for
such sum, and recover the same from such employer, whether
he shall have paid the said wages to the laborer or not.

8. In no case shall the immigrant laborer. or the employer
of the immigrant laborer, be charged by the said board, or
any of its agents, any greater or ‘other sum than is allowed
by the provisions of this act.

9. Said board shall have the right and authority to receive
donations or loans of money. All expenses attending the
operations of said board, including the salaries of' its officers
and agents, and the actual expenses of the members of said
board in attending to the business of the same, shall be paid
out of such donations or loans, and the tind mentioned in
sections six and seven of this act. In no event shall the
operations of said board be a charge upon the treasury of
the state. r

10. This act shall be in force from its passage,