Chap. 32.—An ACT to authorize the State Prison Board to expend certain funds
heretofore appropriated for per diem allowance to prisoners for the purpose
of purchasing certain equipment and machinery and to provide for the re-
payment thereof. [S. B. 22]

Approved September 8, 1933

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
State Prison Board be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered
subject to the approval of the Governor to expend not in excess of
seventy-five thousand dollars of the funds heretofore appropriated for
per diem allowance to prisoners and not yet expended therefor, for the
purpose of purchasing equipment and machinery for the manufacture
and production of articles, pursuant to the provisions of section twenty
hundred and seventy-three of the Code of Virginia, but no money shall
be used in the purchase of machinery or equipment for the manutacture
of brooms or mattresses. For the purpose of repaying any money ex-
pended under the provisions of this act the State Prison Board may,
subject to the approval of the Governor being first obtained, and for
such length of time as may be necessary for said purpose, include as
a part of the charge allowed to be made for articles manufactured and
produced under the provisions of the aforesaid section of the Code of
Virginia, an amount sufficient to defray the cost of such machinery and
equipment, purchased pursuant to the provisions of this act and used
in manufacturing and producing such articles. That part of all charges
allowed and collected pursuant to this act shall, until all sums used by
the State Prison Board under this act have been repaid to the fund
from which expended, be used for the payment of the per diem allowed
prisoners, for which purpose it is hereby appropriated.

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