CHAP. 193.—An ACT to regulate the hours of labor in factories
where females and children under fourteen years of age are
employed as operatives.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That no female and no child under fourteen years of age
shall work as an operative in any factory or in any fac-
tory or manufacturing establishment in this state more
than ten hours in any one day of twenty-four hours. All
contracts made or to be made for the employment of any
female or of any child under fourteen years of age, as an
operative in any factory or manufacturing establishment
to work more than ten hours in any one day of twenty-
four hours, are and shall be void.
2. Any person having the authority to contract for the
mployment of persons as operatives in any factory or
manufacturing establishment, who shall engage or con-
tact with any female or any child under fourteen years
Mf age to work as an operative in such factory or manufac-
uring establishment during more than ten hours in any
me day of twenty-four hours, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and be fined not less than five nor more than
wenty dollars.

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

CHaP. 194 —An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1613 of the
code of Virginia, of chapter 72, to provide for the appointment
of visitors of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section sixteen hundred and thirteen, of the code of
Virginia, of chapter seventy-two, be amended and re-enact-
ed so as to read as follows:

§1613. Virginia normal and collegiate institute continu-
ed; appointment of visitors; their terms.—The Virginia
normal and collegiate institute shall continue a body cor-
porate under the name and style of the “ board of visitors
of the Virginia normal and collegiate institute,” and be
under the go vernment and control of the board, compos-
ed of eight qualified persons andof the superintendent of
public instruction, who shall be ex-officio chairman of the
board. The present incumbents shall remain in office
until their successors are appointed and qualified. Onor
before the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and
ninety, and thereafter on the first day of February, in
every succeeding fourth year, the governor, with the con-
sent of the senate, shall appoint eight well qualified men
as visitors of said institute, whose term of office shall com-
mence on the first day of April succeeding their appoint-
ment and continue four years.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.

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

CHaP. 19%.—An ACT for the relief of Alice J. Noland.

Approved March 4, 1890.

Whereas it appears from the sworn statement of C. L.
Gravesand J. R. Battaille, two members of company “ F,”
thirteenth Virginia infantry, that they saw Thomas No-
land, a private in company “C” of said regiment, killed in
battle near the city of Winchester, Virginia, on the nine-
teenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-
four; and whereas it appears from the sworn statement of
Alice J. Noland that she is the widow of said Thomas
Noland, and was so at the time of his death; that she has
never received any pension of any kind; that she has been
bed-ridden for many years, and is absolutely incapable of
going to the county court of Orange, in which county she
lives, in order to comply with the requirements of the
statute made and provided for securing a widow’s pension ;
and further, that she is absolutely without any income;
now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby,
instructed and directed to enter the name of Alice J. No-
land, of the county of Orange, In the list as prescribed
and designated in the act approved March fifth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, for widows of soldiers killed in
war; and the auditor is further directed to pay to the said
Alice J. Noland the amount of arrearage to which she
would have been entitled had she not labored under the
disability mentioned.

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