CHAP. 30.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3905 of the Code of
Virginia, relative to the punishment of convicts sentenced to confine-
ment in the penitentiary once before sentenced in the United States
to a like punishment. (S. B. 51.)

Approved February 9, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-nine hundred and five of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3905. When person sentenced to confinement in peni-
tentiary has been once before sentenced to like punishment what
to be added to his sentence.—When any person is convicted of
an offense and sentenced to confinement therefor in the peni-
tentiary, and it is alleged in the indictment on which he is con-
victed, and admitted, or by the jury found that he had been be-
fore sentenced in the United States to a like punishment, he may
be sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary for such time not
exceeding five years as the court trying the case shall, in its
discretion, 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hereby repealed.