Chap. 497.—An ACT to prescribe a penalty for persons who, under the provisions
of sections 3932 and 3934 of the Code of Virginia, are ordered to work in chain-

gangs and escape, or attempt to escape, from the person in whose custody they
lawfully are.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever
any person who, under the provisions of sections thirty-nine hundred
and thirty-two and thirty-nine hundred and thirty-four of the Code of
Virginia, has been ordered to work in any chain-gang shall escape or at-
tempt to escape from the custody of the person in whose charge he may
lawfully be, he may be pursued, captured, and retaken by any person,
without warrant, at any time within five years, and carried before the
judge of the county court of said county, either in term time or vacation,
and upon a hearing of the complaint against him, if the said judge find
him guilty of so escaping or attempting to escape, he shall in every such
case, as a penalty therefor, add one month to his term of labor in addi-
tion to the term for which he was originally sentenced.

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