Chap. 65.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled: An act to
create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain pris-
oners on the public roads of this State; providing for the guarding, trans-
portation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the State convict
road force; providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed
45 men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor of the
State convict road force; and appropriating money from the public treasury
to earry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906.

Approved February 25, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ten of an act entitled “an act to create the State convict road force;
to authorize the working of certain prisoners on the public roads of
this State; providing for the guarding, transportation, lodging, feed-
ing, clothing and medical attention of the State convict road force;
providing for an increase of the penitentiary guard not to exceed forty-
five men; providing how a county may have the benefit of the labor
of the State convict road force; and appropriating money from the
public treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect,” ap-
proved March sixth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: ;

§10. Whenever the State highway commissioner shall make requisi-
tion upon the superintendent of the penitentiary for a designated num-
ber of the State convict road force to be employed upon the roads of
any county of this State, which requisition shall state the number of
convicts wanted and the point in the State at which they are to be
delivered, the superintendent of the penitentiary shall send to such
county such number of the State convict road’ force so required under
proper guard and officers and with all necessary paraphernalia for a
movable camp for such road force. And said State convict road force
shall be-under the direction of an engineer, appointed for the purpose
by the State highway commissioner, who shall be a civil engineer, or
person well versed in road building, and said road force shall do all
proper and necessary work upon such roads as the engineer may direct,
for its proper construction and improvement. Should there arise a
doubt as to what work is included in road building and improvement
and should be done and performed by such State convict road force,
such doubt shall be decided by the State highway commissioner.
The guards employed by the superintendent of the State penitentiary
shall be required to carry out orders of the State highway commis-
sioner and shall be discharged by the superintendent of the State peni-
tentiary upon the written request of the State highway commissioner.