Chap. 6.—JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Governor to cancel
the contract with Mason, Gooch and Hoge, for the Hire of Convicts
on certain conditions.

Approved December 19, 1874.

Resolved by the house of delegates (the senate concurring),
That the governor be, and he is hereby authorized to cancel
the contract between the state of Virginia and Mason,
Gooch and Hoge, executed in August, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, for the hire of penitentiary convicts, at any
time after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
seventy-five: provided, that the said Mason, Gooch and Hoge
shall first deliver to the superintendent of the penitentiary,
without charge to the state, all the convicts in their employ
under said contract, and pay into the treasury all dues to the
state on account of the hire and escape of convicts at the
date of their delivery to the said superintendent.