Chap. 118.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 391
of the Acts of 1887, entitled an act to secure to operatives and labor-
ers enwazed in and about coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel,
and all other manufactories, the payment of their wages at regular
intervals, and in lawful money of the United States.

Approved February 13, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three of chapter three hundred and ninety-one of the
Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an act
to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about
coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other
manufactories, the payment of their wages at regular inter-
vals and in lawful money of the United States, approved May
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not
be lawful for any person, firm, company, corporation, or asso-
ciation, engaged in the business aforesaid, their clerk, agent,
officer, or servant in this state, to issue for payment of labor,
any order, or other payment whatever, unless the same pur-
ports to be redeemable for its face value in lawful money of
the United States, made payable on demand and without con-
dition, to i a or bearer, bearing interest at legal rate,
and redeemable by the person, firm, company, corporation, or
association, giving, making, or issuing the same; and any per-
son, firm, company, corporation, or association engaged in the
business aforesaid, their clerks, agents, officers, or servants,
who shall issue for payment of labor any paper or order, other
than the one herein specified, in violation of this section, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined
in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars in the discre-
tion of the court.

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