Chap. 29.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3906 of the Code of
Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts twice before sentenced
in the United States to confinement in the penitentiary. (S. B. 50.)

Approved February 9, 1916.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-nine hundred and six of the Code of Virginia, rela-
tive to the punishment of convicts twice before sentenced in the
United States to confinement in the penitentiary be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3906. When so sentenced twice before, how to be sen-
tenced.— When any such convict shall have been twice before
sentenced in the United States to confinement in the peniten-
tiary, he may be sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary
for such time as the court trying the case, shall, in its discre-
tion, deem proper, in addition to the time to which he is or
would be otherwise sentenced.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.