Chap. 145.—An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the count
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Approved January 25, 1898,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in addi-
tion to the procedure adopted under section eight hundred and eighty-
five of the code for the working of vagrants that in the county of Hen-
rico it shall be made the duty of the special police of the county, upon

report that a certain person is believed to be a vagrant, to cause at once
the arrest of such person, taking him before the nearest justice of the
peace for said county, and if upon examination it shall appear that the
person apprehended is a vagrant within the meaning of section eight
hundred and eighty-four of the code, such justice shall by warrant com-
mit him to jail for the period of thirty days, and the board of super-
visors of said county may, when five or more vagrants have been thus
arrested, work them on one or more of the public roads of the county
with ball and chain for the time of theircommitment. The board shall
establish rules and regulations for the care, safe-keeping and government
of such vagrants, provide proper persons to guard them whilst at work,
and make provision for the payment of the expenses incident to the
keeping and working such vagrants, which expenses shall be paid out of
the county treasury. In the event the persons so consigned to labor do
not conform to the rules and regulations adopted by the board of super-
visors the same may be enforced by the infliction of such corporal punish-
ment as said board may preseribe, such punishment to be executed by
the jailer or officer placed in charge of such vagrants.
2. The jailer of said county shall, upon the written request of the
chairman of the board of supervisors, deliver said vagrants to the person
authorized to take charge of and work them, taking a receipt in manner
provided in section three thousand nine hundred and thirty-four of the
code of Virginia.

3. Should there be established a chain gang in said county under sec-
tion three thousand nine hundred and thirty-two of the code of Virginia
the board of supervisors of said county, after the arrest of a vagrant or
ragrants, shall direct the delivery of such person or persons to the party
authorized to work them, and said vagrant or vagrants shall be lable to
work and be in such chain gang governed by all the rules and regula-
tions governing the same.

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