CHAP. 19.—An ACT to provide for the continued use of convict lat
by the James River and Kanawha Company.

Approved January 24, 1880.

Whereas the James River and Kanawha company is now
possession of one hundred and eighty convicts, which were
received under the provisions of an act approved December
twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and entitled :
act to provide for the use of convict labor on the James River
and Kanawha canal, and that the Buchanan and Clifton Forge
railway company has contracted for the use of said convict
labor under the authority of an act approved March seventee
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight :

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the limita
tion of time for the use of said convicts, which was restricted
by the acts aforesaid to the first Wednesday in December
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, is extended to the first
Wednesday in December, eighteen hundred and eighty: pro
vided, that such extension of time shall apply to the use on
of such convicts as are now in the possession and use of said
companies, and shall not be construed to authorize the delivery
of any other convicts from the penitentiary to said Jam
River ana Kanawha company.

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