Chap. 806.—An ACT for the protection of farmers, &c., in Buckingham
county by requiring license of labor agents and imposing penalties for
violation.

Approved March 6, 1900.

Whereas the farming and other interest of Buckingham county are
being badly crippled, and in some instances almost ruined, by the car-
rying off by labor agents, and agents of railroad contractors and others.
the pick of the laboring class of Buckingham county, by offering in-
ducements, which are seldom, if ever, carried out, with the result of
faking from Buckingham county the most desirable and best labor for
six or seven months of the vear, and leaving them without emplovment
for the remainder of the vear, and thereby seriously embarrassing the
riculturists and manufacturers of Buckingham county as before stated.
ind not being anv benefit or gain to the laboring man; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
yf supervisors of Buckingham county, Virginia, are hereby authorized
and empowered to place a tax upon all labor agents, or representatives of
persons, firms, or corporations, that come into Buckingham county for
the prrpose of inducing the laborers to move from the county, as before
stated.

2. In no case shall the tax imposed upon such agents or representa-
tives of persons, firms, or corporations soliciting men to leave Bucking-
ham county be less than one hundred dollars per annum or more than
two hundred dollars per annum, at the discretion of the board of super-
visors. Any agent or representative found in any part of the county so-
liciting men to leave said county for the purposes heretofore stated,
without having in his possession license or receipt showing that license
has been paid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished,
on conviction, by fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hun-
dred dollars in each case.

3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.