CHAP. 118.—An ACT to provide for the punishment of persons con-
victed of petit larceny in the city of Norfolk.

Approved April 2, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That
persons convicted under chapter three, section thirteen of the
Criminal Code of the state, being chapter three hundred and
cleven of the Acts of Assembly, eighteen hundred and seventy-
seven, seventy-eight, and chapter three, section thirteen of the
same, of petit larceny, in the city of Norfolk, may be punished
with stripes, or, at the discretion of the court, may be sentenced
to hard labor in a chain-gang in said city: provided that the
city of Norfolk shall pay all the expenses of such chain-gang,
and of guarding, finding and clothing such persons, and of pro-
perly providing for and taking care of the same.

2. This act shall take effect from its passage.