Chap. 250.—An ACT to authorize the Sale of the Penitentiary Spring
Lot, and the Erection of a Suitable Building for the Confinement and
Employment of the Female Convicts in the Penitentiary.

Approved March 25, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the board of directors of the penitentiary, with the
approval of the governor, is hereby authorized to sell the
square of land in the city of Richmond, bounded by Cary
and Main, and Jefferson and Madison streets, and known as
The Penitentiary Spring Lot, in such manner and on such
terms as the said board of directors may decide to be to the
best interest of the state; such sale of all or any part of
said lot to be subject to the approval of the governor.

2. The said board of directors shall collect and pay into
the treasury of the state, in money, the proceeda arising
from the sale of the said lot, or any portion thereof, and all
sums of money paid into the treasury from this source shall
be passed to the credit of the penitentiary, and paid out as
hereinafter prescribed.

3. The superintendent, with the approval of the board of
directors, is hereby authorized to have erected, on the peni-
tentiary grounds, outside of the main prison building, a suita-
ble building for the confinement and employment of the female
convicts in the penitentiary.. In the erection of said build-
ing, the superintendent shall employ the convict labor, as far
as it may be practicable, and for payment of the material for
said building, und such work as cannot be done by the con-
victs, the superintendent, with the approval of the board of
directors, may draw his draft on the auditor of public ac-
counts for an amount or amounts not to exceed the sum of
ten thousand dollars. The duditor shall pay said drafts out
of any moneys paid into the treasury to the credit of the
penitentiary on account of the sale of the said spring lot, as
above authorized, but shall not pay thg same out of any

other fund.
_ 4, This act shall be in force from,its passage.