CHAP. 721.—An ACT to authorize the governor to furnish con-
vict labor for the building of the Blue Ridge railway from Jack-
sonville, Floyd county, through the county of Montgomery to
the Norfolk and Western railroad.

Approved March 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the governor be authorized and requested hereby to
furnish and hire to the Blue Ridge railroad company one
hundred, or as many penitentiary convicts as can be fur-
nished without interfering with existing legal contracts,
to be used for constructing the railroad of said compan
from Jacksonville to the Norfolk and Western railroad.
The said company shall have said convicts at the same
rate of compensation now provided by the general law
relative to hire of convicts in such cases.

2. The accounts for the hire of said convicts shall be
stated quarterly after the first delivery of convicts to said
company under this act, and quarterly thereafter shall be
payable in lawful money of the United States, and not in
any coupons of this state.

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