CHAP. 35.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an
act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Associa-
tion of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and
discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compen-
sation to be paid by the Commonwealth for the caring for such minors,
approved February 5, 1900, as amended by an act approved March
14, 1908. (H. B. 71.)

Approved February 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five of an act entitled an act in relation to the govern-
ment of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to
the commitment, government, employment and discharge of
negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation
to be paid by the Commonwealth, for the caring of such minors,
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5. Whenever any negro minor charged with any crime,
or with being a vagrant, or disorderly person is convicted, it
shall be lawful for the court, judge or justice before whom the
conviction is had, in the discretion of such court, judge or justice,
with the consent of the Negro Reformatory Association of Vir-
ginia, to direct that such minor convicted shall be committed _to
the custody and control of the said Negro Reformatory Associa-
tion of Virginia, and said association shall have the same power
and authority over any such minors as the proper authorities of
the State penitentiary now have with regard to persons commit-
ted to it, and shall be entitled, upon the certificate of the judge of
the circuit court for the county of Hanover, to the same com-
pensation for caring for them which the jailers of this Common-
wealth were entitled to for the same number of persons January
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; provided, that at no
time shall the Commonwealth be charged with the care of more
than two hundred if said negro minors; and provided further,
that in all cases of conviction by a justice where an appeal lies
to a higher court, other than cases where such minor is com-
mitted to the said association at the request, or with the consent
f the parent or legally qualified guardian of such minor, an ap-
yeal may be taken from the action of the justice before whom
such conviction is had at any time within fifteen days from the
late of such conviction.