Chap. 234.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act en-
titled “an act to authorize the governor to grant conditional pardon to per-
sons confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of
directors of said institution,” approved March 3, 1898, as amended by an
act approved February 3, 1900, as amended by an act approved May 1, 1903,
and further amended by an act approved March 7, 1904.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act to

uthorize the governor to grant conditional pardon to persons confined
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in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said
Institution, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
as amended by an act approved February third, nineteen hundred, as
amended by an act approved May first, nineteen hundred and three, and
further amended by an act approved March seventh, nineteen hundred
and four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. Whenever it appears to the board of directors of the penitentiary
that a prisoner in that institution who was sentenced to the penitentiary
for any crime, has served out half of his term of imprisonment for which
he was sentenced, that he has kept the prison rules for the two years next
preceding the date of the expiration of one-half of his term (if he shall
have been confined in the penitentiary so long), as shown by the prison
records, and that he is a fit person to receive such parole, said board may.
in its discretion, parole him during the remainder of his term of sentence
upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, if he has an assurance
satisfactory to said board that he will have employment as soon as he is
<dlischarged, or if otherwise so provided for that he will not be dependent
upon public or private charity. If the record shows that the prisoner
shall have been punished within the said preceding two years, he shall
have the right to present his application for parole to said board of dire-
tors for consideration, and if said punishment which was inflicted during
the said preceding two years was not for a crime of a felonious nature.
then the said board of directors may grant the parole as if said prisoner
had not been punished within the two years preceding his application.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.