An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1865/1866 |
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Law Number | 28 |
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Chap. 28.—An ACT providing for the punishment of Vagrants.
Passed January 15, 1866.
Whereas it is represented to the general assembly, That
there hath lately been a great increase of idle and disorderly
persons in some parts of this commonwealth, and unless rome
stringent laws are passed to restrain and prevent such va-
grancy and idleness, the state will be overrun with dissolute
and abandoned characters, to the great detriment of the
public weal: For remedy whereof,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembL.y, That the over-
seers of the poor, or other officers having charge of the poor,
or the special county police, or the police of any corporation,
or any one or more of such persons, shall be and are hereby
empowered and required, upon discovering any vagrant or
vagrants within their respective counties or corporations, to
make information thereof to any justice of the peace of their
county or corporation, and to require a warrant for appre-
hending such vagrant or vagrants, to be brought before him
or some other justice; and if, upon due examination, it shall
appear that the person or persons are within the true descrip-
tion of a vagrant, as hereinafter mentioned, such justice shall,
by warrant under his hand, order such vagrant or vagrants
to be employed in labor for any term not exceeding three
months, and, by any constable of such county or corporation,
to be hired out for the best wages that can be procured ; to
be applied, except as hereafter provided, for the use of the
vagrant or his family, as ordered by the justice. And if any
such vagrant or vagrants shall, during such time of service,
without sufficient cause, run away from the person s0 em-
ploying him or them, he or they shall be apprehended, on the
warrant of a justice, and returned to the custody of such
hirer, who shall have, free of any further hire, the services of
said vagrant for one month in addition to the original term of
hiring; and said employer shall then have the power, if au-
thorized by the justice, to work said vagrant, confined with ball
and chain; or should said hirer decline to receive again said
vagrant, then said vagrant shall be taken by the officer, upon
the order of a justice, to the poor or work house, if there be
any such in said county or corporation, and be delivered to
the overseer or superintendent, who shall work said vagrant
for the benefit of said county or corporation; or, if author-
ized by the justice, to work him, confined with ball and
chain, for the period for which he would have had to serve
his late employer, had he consented to receive him again; or
should there be, when said runaway vagrant is apprehended,
any public work going on in said county or corporation, then
said vagrant, upon the order of a justice, shall be delivered
over by said offica@® to the superintendent of such public
work, who shall, for the like last mentioned period, work said
vagrant on said public works, confined with ball and chain, if
so authorized by the justice. But if there be no poor or
work house in said county or corporation, and no public work
then in progress therein, then, in that event, said justice may
cause said vagrant to be delivered to any person who will
take charge of him. Said person to have his services free of
charge, except maintenance, for a like last mentioned period ;
and said person so receiving said vagrant is hereby empow-
ered, if authorized by the justice, to work said vagrant
confined with ball and chain; or should no such person be
found, then said vagrant is to be committed to the county
jail, there to be confined for the like period, and fed on bread
and water. But the persons described as the fifth class of
vagrants, in the second section of this act, may be arrested
without warrant by the special county or corporation police,
and when so arrested shall be taken before a justice, who
shall proceed to dispose of them in the mode prescribed in
this section, or may at once direct them to be committed to
prison for a period not exceeding three months, to be kept
in close confinement and fed on bread and water.
2. The following described persons shall be liable to the
penalties imposed by law upon vagrants :
First—All persons who shall unlawfully return into any
county or corporation whence they have heen legally re-
moved.
Second—aAll persons who, not having wherewith to main-
tain themselves and their families, live idly and without
employment, and refuse to work for the uswal and common
wages given to other laborers in the like work in the place
where they then are.
Third—All persons who shall refuse to perform the work
which shall be allotted to them by the overseers of the poor
as aforesaid. |
Fourth—All persons going about from door to door, or
Per ae themselves in streets, highways or other roads, to
¢ alms, and all other persons wandering abroad and beg-
ging, unless disabled or incapable of labor.
Fifth—AU persons who shall come from any place without
this commonwealth to any place within it, and shall be found
loitering and residing therein, and shall follow no labor, trade,
occupation or business, and have no visible means of subsis-
tence, and can give no reasonable account of themselves or
their business in such place.
3. All costs and expenses incurred shall be paid out of the
hire of such vagrant, if sufficient; and if not sufficient, the
deficiency shall be paid by the county or corporation.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 28.—An ACT providing for the punishment of Vagrants.
Passed January 15, 1866.
Whereas it is represented to the general assembly, That
there hath lately been a great increase of idle and disorderly
persons in some parts of this commonwealth, and unless rome
stringent laws are passed to restrain and prevent such va-
grancy and idleness, the state will be overrun with dissolute
and abandoned characters, to the great detriment of the
public weal: For remedy whereof,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembL.y, That the over-
seers of the poor, or other officers having charge of the poor,
or the special county police, or the police of any corporation,
or any one or more of such persons, shall be and are hereby
empowered and required, upon discovering any vagrant or
vagrants within their respective counties or corporations, to
make information thereof to any justice of the peace of their
county or corporation, and to require a warrant for appre-
hending such vagrant or vagrants, to be brought before him
or some other justice; and if, upon due examination, it shall
appear that the person or persons are within the true descrip-
tion of a vagrant, as hereinafter mentioned, such justice shall,
by warrant under his hand, order such vagrant or vagrants
to be employed in labor for any term not exceeding three
months, and, by any constable of such county or corporation,
to be hired out for the best wages that can be procured ; to
be applied, except as hereafter provided, for the use of the
vagrant or his family, as ordered by the justice. And if any
such vagrant or vagrants shall, during such time of service,
without sufficient cause, run away from the person s0 em-
ploying him or them, he or they shall be apprehended, on the
warrant of a justice, and returned to the custody of such
hirer, who shall have, free of any further hire, the services of
said vagrant for one month in addition to the original term of
hiring; and said employer shall then have the power, if au-
thorized by the justice, to work said vagrant, confined with ball
and chain; or should said hirer decline to receive again said
vagrant, then said vagrant shall be taken by the officer, upon
the order of a justice, to the poor or work house, if there be
any such in said county or corporation, and be delivered to
the overseer or superintendent, who shall work said vagrant
for the benefit of said county or corporation; or, if author-
ized by the justice, to work him, confined with ball and
chain, for the period for which he would have had to serve
his late employer, had he consented to receive him again; or
should there be, when said runaway vagrant is apprehended,
any public work going on in said county or corporation, then
said vagrant, upon the order of a justice, shall be delivered
over by said offica@® to the superintendent of such public
work, who shall, for the like last mentioned period, work said
vagrant on said public works, confined with ball and chain, if
so authorized by the justice. But if there be no poor or
work house in said county or corporation, and no public work
then in progress therein, then, in that event, said justice may
cause said vagrant to be delivered to any person who will
take charge of him. Said person to have his services free of
charge, except maintenance, for a like last mentioned period ;
and said person so receiving said vagrant is hereby empow-
ered, if authorized by the justice, to work said vagrant
confined with ball and chain; or should no such person be
found, then said vagrant is to be committed to the county
jail, there to be confined for the like period, and fed on bread
and water. But the persons described as the fifth class of
vagrants, in the second section of this act, may be arrested
without warrant by the special county or corporation police,
and when so arrested shall be taken before a justice, who
shall proceed to dispose of them in the mode prescribed in
this section, or may at once direct them to be committed to
prison for a period not exceeding three months, to be kept
in close confinement and fed on bread and water.
2. The following described persons shall be liable to the
penalties imposed by law upon vagrants :
First—All persons who shall unlawfully return into any
county or corporation whence they have heen legally re-
moved.
Second—aAll persons who, not having wherewith to main-
tain themselves and their families, live idly and without
employment, and refuse to work for the uswal and common
wages given to other laborers in the like work in the place
where they then are.
Third—All persons who shall refuse to perform the work
which shall be allotted to them by the overseers of the poor
as aforesaid. |
Fourth—All persons going about from door to door, or
Per ae themselves in streets, highways or other roads, to
¢ alms, and all other persons wandering abroad and beg-
ging, unless disabled or incapable of labor.
Fifth—AU persons who shall come from any place without
this commonwealth to any place within it, and shall be found
loitering and residing therein, and shall follow no labor, trade,
occupation or business, and have no visible means of subsis-
tence, and can give no reasonable account of themselves or
their business in such place.
3. All costs and expenses incurred shall be paid out of the
hire of such vagrant, if sufficient; and if not sufficient, the
deficiency shall be paid by the county or corporation.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.