Chap. 300.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An Act
to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers
engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufacturies of iron and steel,
and all other manufacturies, and railroad clerks the paymeni. of wages at regular
intervals, and in lawful money of the United States approved May 23rd, 1887,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912.”, approved
March 20, 1918. [H B 432]
: : Approved March 28, 1940 |

1. Be it enacted. by the General Assembly o: Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled “‘An Act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and
about railroad shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and
all other manufactories, and railroad clerks the payinent of wages at
regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States approved
May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended
and re- -enacted by an act approved March eleventh, :1ineteen hundred
and twelve.”’, approved March twentieth, ninete2n hundred and
eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. All persons, firms, companies, corporations or associa-
tions in this Commonwealth, engaged in operating railroad shops,
maintaining railroad and steamship offices, mining coal, ore, or other
minerals, or mining and manufacturing them, or either of them, or
manufacturing iron or steel, or both, or any other kind of manu-
facturing, shall pay their employees engaged in the employments
aforesaid as provided in this act.

All persons, firms, companies, corporations or associations, en-
gaged in any of the business aforesaid, shall regularly settle with
such employees at least twice in each month, and, at such times, pay
them the amounts due them for their work or services, in lawful
money of the United States, or by check, or by cash order, as described
and required in section three of this act; provided, that nothing herein
contained shall affect the right of any employee to assign the whole
or any part of his claim against his employer; provided, however, that
the semi-monthly payment of wages requirement of this act shall not
apply to excelsior mills or saw mills; but the employers of labor en-
gaged in such enterprises shall settle with their employees at least
once in each month.

No person, firm, company, corporation or association, engaged in
any of the business aforesaid, shall withhold any part of the wages
of any employee thereof without giving to the said employee, upon
his request, a receipt, ticket, token or other writing, showing the
amount of such deduction and the purpose for which the same is made.