Chap. 391.—An ACT to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in
and about coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel and all other
manufactorics, the payment of their wages at regular intervals and
in lawful money of the United States.

Approved May 2%, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all persons, firms, companies, corporations, or associations in
this commonwealth, engaged in mining coal, ore, or other
minerals, or mining and manufacturing them, or either of
them, or manufacturing iron or steel, or both, or any other
kind of manufacturing, shall pay their employces as provided
in this act.

2. All persons, firms, companies, corporations, or associa-
tions engaged in the business aforesaid, shall settle with their
employees at least once in each month, and pay them the
amounts due them for their work or services in lawful money
of the United States, or by the cash order as described and
required in section three of this act: provided that nothing
herein contained shall affect the right of an employee to as-
sign the whole or any part of his claim against his employer.

3. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not
be lawful for any person, firm, company, corporation, or asso-
ciation, their clerk, agent, officer, or servant in this State, to
issue for payment of labor, any order or other paper what-
ever, unless the same purports to be redecmable for its face
value in lawful money of the United States, bearing interest
at legal rate, made payable to employee or bearer, and re-
deemable by the person, firm, company, corporation, or asso-
ciation giving, making, or issuing the same; and any person,
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
discretion of the court.

4. That from and after the paseage of this act, it shall be
unlawful for any person, firm, company, corporation, or asso-
ciation engaged in mining or manufacturing, either or both,
as aforesaid, and who shall likewise be either engaged or in-
terested, directly or indirectly, in merchandising as owner or
otherwise, in any money per centum, profit, or commission
arising from the sale of any such merchandise, their clerks,
servants, officers or agents, to knowingly and wilfully sell or
cause to be sold to any employee, any goods, merchandise,
or supplies whatever for a greater per centum of profit than
merchandise and supplies of like character, kind, quality,
and quantity are sold to other customere buying for cash and
not employed by them; and shall any person or member of
any firm, company, corporation, or association, bis or their
clerk, agent, or servant, violate this section of this act, the
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall
be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, in
the discretion of the court.

5. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this act, be
and the same are hereby repealed.