Chap. 632.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act
entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the Prison association of Vir-
ginia,”’ approved March 3, 1890.

Approved March 8, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section three of an act entitled, “an act to incorpo-
rate the Prison association of Virginia,” approved March
third, eighteen hundred and ninety, be and the same is
hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. Said association shall have power, in furtherance of
said objects, to establish and conduct anywhere within the
limits of the commonwealth such employment houses of
industry, or other agencies of like aim and character, as
they may deem best calculated to aid discharged convicts
by affording them the means of obtaining an honest live-
lihood and sustaining them in their efforts at reform; and
to establish such houses of correction, reformatories, in-
dustrial schools, workhouses, or other institutions of like
aim and character as they may deem advisable, and in
their discretion to receive into them such children and
youth as may be committed to their charge by the volun-
tary written surrender of their parents or other persons
having the legal right to their custody and control, and
also such children and youth and other persons as may be
lawfully committed to their charge by the courts and
magistrates of the commonwealth; and said association
shall have the same power to detain, govern and employ
the persons so committed as are by law conferred upon the
proper authorities of the state penitentiary with regard to
persons committed to it.

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