Chap. 244.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act
o authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons confined
n the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of directors of said
nstitution, approved March 3, 1898.

Approved February 3, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
e of an act entitled an act to authorize the governor to grant a con-
ional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary upon recom-
ndation of the board of directors of said institution, approved March
ird, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so
to read as follows:

<1, Whenever any person is confined in the penitentiary for any
ense, and shall have served out half of his term of imprisonment, he
all be allowed to file a petition with the board of directors of said
-titution, setting forth that he has served half of his term, that he
s kept the prison rules in every respect for the two years next preceding
» date of his petition (if he shall have been confined in the peni-
itiary so long), and asking the said board to recommend him to the
vernor as a proper person to receive a conditional pardon.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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