Chap. 145.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new sec-
tion, numbered 2096-b relating to authorizing the State_prison board to enter
into agreements with counties, towns™ettes~ammi-siate depen tinents to construct
and maintain roads and streets and to do other public work, and for such pur-

poses establishing and providing for supervision, regulation, and maintenance
of convict camps; and appropriating money for such purposes. [S B 182]

Approved March 17, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section, num-
bered twenty hundred and ninety-six-b, to read as follows: |

Section 2096-b. First. The State_prison board is authorized to
establish additional convict camps and to enter into agreements with
the proper authorities of any county, town, or city in the State, or
with any department of the State government to build and maintain
roads and streets, and to do such other public works as may be ap-
proved by the State prison board and the governor; provided, nothing
in this section shall interfere with the State convict road force camps
employed on the State highway system.

The organization and administration of the additional convict
camps established pursuant to this section shall be the same as pro-
vided by law for the State convict road force, except as herein other-
wise provided and to that end, the laws of the State applicable to the
State convict road force shall, in so far as consistent with this section,
apply to the additional convict camps established hereunder.

Second. There is hereby appropriated to the State prison board
out of the funds appropriated for the State convict road force for the
biennium ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two and
unexpended at the end of the said biennium for the establishment, con-
struction and equipment of convict camps pursuant to this section the
sum of sixty thousand dollars. ,

The State prison board shall be allowed for the operation and main-
tenance of such camps a per diem of sixty-three cents for each pris-
oner confined therein, in excess of the two thousand prisoners in the
State convict road force, provided for in the general appropriation act,
to be paid by the State out of the fund appropriated for criminal expen-
ses, upon voucher of vouchers prescribed by the comptroller and signed
by the superintendent of the penitentiary ; if the per diem of sixty-three
cents shall be insufficient for the maintenance of any such additional
camp or camps, such further sum or sums as shall be necessary shall be
paid out of available funds of the county, city, town, or State depart-
ment by which such camp or camps are employed. ,
All moneys herein provided for the construction, equipment, op-
eration and maintenance of the said camps, shall be paid by the treas-
urer, on the warrant or warrants of the comptroller, upon the proper
voucher or vouchers required by the comptroller, approved by the su-
perintendent of the penitentiary.

Third. Applications for the location of camps under this section
shall be filed with the superintendent of the penitentiary. As far as
practicable the camps shall be located as best to relieve the State penal
institutions, improve the conditions in the jails and expedite the con-
struction and maintenance of roads, or other approved public works.

Fourth. The county, town, city or State department that has the
use of prison labor authorized by this section shall designate the pro-
jects to be worked, and shall furnish all engineering service, all tools,
implements, machinery and equipment, used in such projects; shall
secure right of ways; and shall furnish such foremen as the superin-
tendent of the penitentiary deems necessary to direct the work, pro-
vided all county, town, city or State department foremen and em-
ployees having contact with the prisoners shall be acceptable to the
superintendent of the penitentiary. The superintendent of the peni-
tentiary shall have complete control of the prisoners, shall feed, guard,
clothe, provide medical attention for them and have charge of all other
matters pertaining to the administration of the camp. The officer in
charge of the camp shall have charge of the prisoners on road work
and shall keep them employed under the direction of the engineer ac-
cording to rules and regulations of the State convict road force.

The State prison board and the county, town, city or State depart-
ment authorities may make such further terms of agreement as shall
be deemed advisable.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.