CHAP. 58.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled ‘fan act to
create the State convict road force; to authorize the working of certain
prisoners on the public roads of this State; providing for guarding,
transportation, lodging, feeding, 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 appropri-
ating money from the public treasury to carry the provisions of this
act into effect.” "

Approved February 29, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one from 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 guarding, transporta-
tion, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention of the
State convict road force; providing for an increase of the peni-
tentiary 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,”’ be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§1. All prisoners convicted of crime and sentenced to hard
labor on the public roads prior to the first day of May, nineteen
hundred and thirteen, and after that date all prisoners who have
been previous to the first day of May, or who are thereafter
convicted of felony and sentenced to confinement in the peni-
tentiary, and all persons now confined in our public jails, or
who may be hereafter convicted and so confined shall, when
delivered to the superintendent of the penitentiary, under the
provisions of section three of an act of the general assembly
of Virginia, approved on the sixth day of March, nineteen
hundred and six, constitute the State convict road force.