CHAP. 106.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure
to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroads shops, coal
mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories,
the payment of wages at regular intervals and in lawful money of the
United States, approved May 23, 1887, as hereinafter amended.

Approved March 11, 1912.

1. Fe it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled, “An act to secure to operatives and laborers,
engaged in and about coal mines, manufactories of iron and
steel and all other manufactories, the payment of wages a
regular intervals and in lawful money of the United States,
approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$2. All persons, firms, companies, corporations or associa
tions in this Commonwealth, engaged in operating railroa:
shops, mining coal, ore, or other minerals, or mining and manu
facturing them, or either of them, or manufacturing iron o.
steel, or both, or any other kind of manufacturing, shall pa:
their employees engaged in the employments aforesaid as pro
vided in this act.

All persons, firms, companies, corporations or associations
engaged in any of the business aforesaid, shall settle with suc!
of employees at least twice in each month, and pay them th
amounts due them for their work or services, in lawful money
of the United States, or by check, or by cash order, as describe
and required in section three of this act; provided, that nothin;
herein contained shall affect the right of any employee to assig1
the whole or any part of his claim against his employer; pro
vided, however, that the semi-monthly payment of wages re
quirement of this act shall not apply to mining coal, manufac
turing coke, mining ore, or other minerals, excelsior mill:
or saw-mills; but the employers of labor engaged in such enter
prises shall settle with their employées at least once in eacl
month.

§3. That from and after the passage of this act it shall no’
be lawful for any person, firm, company, corporation or asso.
ciation, engaged in the business aforesaid, their clerk, agent
officer or servant in this State to issue for payment of suct
labor any order or other payment whatever, unless the same
purports to be payable or redeemable for its face value in lawfu
money of the United States, such order to be made payable or
demand and without condition to employees, or bearer, bearing
interest at legal rate, and redeemable by the person, firm, com.
pany, corporation or association giving, making or issuing the
same; and any person, firm, company, corporation or associa.
tion, engaged in the business aforesaid, their clerks, agents, of.
ficers or servants, who shall issue for payment of labor any
paper or order, other than the one herein specified in violatior
of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, anc
upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hun.
dred dollars, in the discretion of the court.

$4. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be
unlawful for any person, firm, company, corporation or asso-
ciation engaged in operating railroad shops, or mining or manu-
facturing or either of them, aS aforesaid, and who shall like-
wise be either engaged or interested directly or indirectly, in
merchandising, as owner or otherwise, in any money per centum
profit or commission arising from the sale of any such merchan-
cise, their clerks, servants, officers or agents to knowingly or
wilfully sell, or cause to be sold, to any such employee any goods,
merchandise or supplies whatever for a greater per centum of
profit than merchandise and supplies of like character, kind,
quality and quantity are sold to other customers, buying for
cash and not employed by them; and shall any person or mem-
ber of any firm, company, corporation or association, his or their
clerk, agent, or servant violate this act they shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum
not exceeding one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court.