Chap. 783.—An ACT to provide more effectually for the punishment of vagrants

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when.
ever any person is apprehended or arrested in any city or town as 2
vagrant under section eight hundred and eighty-four of the code o!
Virginia it shall be unlawful for said authorities to discharge said
person upon condition that such person leave said city or town, but
shall proceed as, and only as, provided by section eight hundred and
eighty-five of the code of Virginia.

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