Chap. 592.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled “an act
to authorize certain persons, when arrested or convicted, to be committed
to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia,” approved March 4, 1890.

Approved March 3, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled ‘an act to authorize certain persons, when ar-
rested or convicted, to be committed to the custody of the Prison
association of Virginia,” approved March fourth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

81. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever any minor charged with any crime, or with being a va-
grant, or disorderly person, is arrested or convicted, it shall be law-
ful for the court, judge, or justice causing the arrest, or before whom
the conviction is had, in the discretion of such court, judge, or jus-
tice, with the consent of the Prison association of Virginia, to direct
that the minor arrested or convicted, as the case may be, shall be
committed to the custody and control of the said Prison association
of Virginia; and said association shall have the same power and au-
thority over any such minors as the proper authorities of the state
penitentiary now have with regard to the persons committed to it,
and shall be entitled to the same compensation for caring for them
which the jailors of this commonwealth now have or are entitled to:
provided, however, that no minor shall be committed to the custody
and control of the said Prison association before conviction, with-
out the consent of the parent or legal guardian of said min
such there be.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.