CHAP. 73.—An ACT to amend and re-enaet section 7 of an 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
the 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 appropriating money from the. public treasury to carry
the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906, as
amended. [fH B 2}

Approved September 9, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of an 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 the guarding, trans-
portation, 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 can 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, approved March
sixth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended, be amended and
re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 7. The State convict road force shall be guarded when
at work on the roads of the State, and in making road material,
by guards detailed by the superintendent of the penitentiary or
appointed from a list furnished by, or otherwise with the con-
sent and approval of, the State highway commissioner; provided,
the guards so detailed or appointed shall not exceed one guard
to every eight convicts so employed on the roads, and in making
such details or appointments a sufficient number of men shall
be selected who are competent to supervise and direct the work
under construction, and, as far as may be practicable, such
appointees shall be required to supervise and direct such work
as well as guard the convict road force. The wages of such ad-
ditional guards shall be fixed by the superintendent of the peni-
tentiary, with the consent and approval of the State highway
commissioner, but shall not exceed for guards fifty dollars per
month and board, and for sergeants one hundred dollars per
month and board; but may be less, and shall be paid out of the
money appropriated to carry out the provisions of this act. The
superintendent of the penitentiary, with the consent and ap-
proval of the State highway commissioner, may appoint an as-
sistant, who shall have charge of the State road force, and such
clerks as may be necessary, not exceeding two, whose salaries
shall be fixed by said superintendent and said highway commis-
sioner, that of the assistant not to exceed fifteen hundred dol-
lars per year, that of one clerk not to exceed twelve hundred dol-
lars per year, and that of the other clerk not to exceed eight hun-
dred dollars per year, who shall be paid from moneys appropri-
ated to carry out the provisions of this act.

The superintendent of the penitentiary, his assistant or ser-
geant, at the request of the State highway commissioner, shall,
as far as practicable, make trusties of the convicts of the State
road force employed under this act.