CHAP. 95.—An ACT for the establishment of a workhouse of correc-
tion in the city of Norfolk.

Approved April 2, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the common
and select councils of the city of Norfolk, with the approval
of the mayor and judge of the hustings court of said city, are
authorized in their discretion to establish a workhouse of cor-
rection for the punisiment of boys and girls under the age of
fifteen years.

2. Ail persons under the age of Hitipen years, who may be
conyicted of misdemeanor in any of the courts of said city, or
before a justice of said city, may be punished in the discretion
of the said courts er justices by confinement in the said house
of correc ion for a period not exceeding four montns, in leu of
the punishment prescrived by existing laws for like offonces.

5, All prisoners sent to the workhouse of correction estab-
Ushed under this act shall be in the keeping of the present
officer of the court having charge of prisoners, and shall re-
ceive like compensation fur their keeping, and so forth.

A, This act shall be in force froin its passage.