Chap. 525.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to prescribe a
penalty for persons who, under the provisions of sections 3932 and 3934 of the
Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to
escape, from the person in whose custody they lawfully are,” approved April 2,
1902.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled “an act to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the pro-
visions of sections thirty-nine hundred and thirty-two and thirty-nine
hundred and thirty-four of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in
chain-gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose
custody they lawfully are,” approved April two, nineteen hundred and
two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever
any person who, under the provisions of sections thirty-nine hundred
and thirty-two and thirty-nine hundred and thirty-four of the Code of
Virginia, has been ordered to work in any chain-gang, shall escape, or
attempt to escape, from the custody of the person in whose charge he
may lawfully be, he may be pursued, captured, and retaken by any per-
son, Without warrant, at any time within five years, and carried before
the judge of the circuit court of the county or corporation court of the
corporation, either in term time or vacation, and upon a hearing of the
complaint against him, if the said judge find him guilty of so escaping,
or attempting to escape, he shall in every such case, as a penalty there
for, add one month to his term of labor in addition to the term for which
he was originally sentenced.

2. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteen hun-
dred and four.
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