Chap. 155.—An ACT to empower the boards of supervisors of Giles, Pulaski,

‘raig, Lee, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan and Seott counties to require old fines

and costs to be worked out upon the public roads and streets of the towns of
said counties, and providing rules and regulations therefor.

Approved January 29, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the several
commonwealth’s attorney sof Giles, Pulaski, Craig, Lee, Wi ise, Buchanan,
Dickenson and Scott counties shall, on or before the first dav of June,
eighteen hundred and nincty-eight, furnish to the board of supervisors
of their respective counties a list giving names, by whom due, and
amount of all fines and costs due the commonwealth of Virginia in
their respective counties, and upon receipt of such information the
board of supervisors of said counties shall cause notice to be given to
those by whom fines and costs are due (showing the amounts due by
each severally), that they can voluntarily work out the same at rate of
one dollar per day with their nearest road overseer, and the said over-
seer’s receipt shall be accepted by the said board of supervisors as a
voucher for the amount so paid, to be applied to said fines and costs.
Said voluntary work to be done by the first day of October, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, but for sufficient cause the board of super-
visors may give reasonable additional time, and upon a failure to pay
said fines and costs, or any part thereof remaining unpaid by the time
fixed by the sev eral boards of supervisors herein provided, then such as
shall be delinquents shall be caused to be arrested under a capias pro
fine, and when so arrested shall be required to work out said fines and
costs, or anv balance thereof unpaid at the rate of fifty cents per day,
and under such control and supervision as the several boards of super-
visors may direct, upon the streets of the towns or roads of the re-
spective counties, as the several boards of supervisors may designate, and
under such provisions as to confinement in the county jail or otherwise,
when not emploved during the period of working out said fines, as the
buard of supervisors may adopt.

If it shall appear upon investigation by the boards of supervisors that
any person Hable to the provisions of this act is unable to labor and
should be exempted by reason of age, bodily infirmity or other sufficient
cause the said boards of supervisors are hereby empowered to grant said
exemption, but such exemption from work, as herein provided, shall
not operate as a release from or liquidation of the fines and costs due by
such parties.

2. It shall be lawful for the boards of supervisors of the several coun-

ties herein named to adopt such other rules and regulations and do such
acts as they may deem expedient for the carrying out of the meaning
and intent of this act.

8. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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