Chap. 245.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 376}
Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two thousand and seventy-five of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2075. How persons confined in jail may be put to work on
roads—Upon written request of the superintendent of the peniten-
tiary, the judge of the circuit court of any county or the judge of the
corporation court of any city, shall in term or vacation, unless any such
prisoner shows to said judge good cause to the contrary, order any
male person convicted of a misdemeanor, or of any offense deemed
infamous in law, and sentenced to confinement in jail as a punishment,
or part punishment for such offense, or who is imprisoned for failure
to pay any fine imposed upon or assessed against him upon such
conviction, or who is imprisoned for a violation of an ordinance of
any city or town which by said ordinance is punishable by confine-
ment in jail or fine, to be delivered by the jailer of such county or city,
to or upon the order of the superintendent of the penitentiary, to work
in the State convict road force, and when such request has been so
made by the superintendent of the penitentiary, it shall be deemed
to be a continuing request until it has been revoked by the superin-
tendent. No one so confined who is under the age of eighteen years
shall be so delivered, and the delivery of any such one over the age of
eighteen and under the age of twenty-one years shall be discretionary
with the court or judge, and persons over the age of eighteen years
imprisoned for violation of city, town or county ordinances or sen-
tenced to jail for not more than thirty days for offenses against the
Commonwealth, or if for more than thirty days, pending their de-
livery as members of the State convict road force, shall be liable
primarily to work on chain-gangs or public works within such cities,
towns or counties at the request of the proper authorities thereof.
Any person so sentenced to such chain-gang or public works under
this section, shall have the right of appeal from such sentence to the
circuit or corporation court, as the case may be. :