Chap. 300.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the
sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters
within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, and to provide certain police
powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such
regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats,
approved February 9, 1900.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for the separate accommodation of white and
colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping and cating apartments of
steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of this common-
wealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers and
other officers in command, to enforce such regulations and to prevent
and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats, approved February ninth,
nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
That it shall be the duty of any captain, purser or other officer in com-
mand of any steamboat carrying passengers and plying in the waters
within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, to assign white and colored
passengers on said boats to the respective location they are to oceupy as
passengers while on said boats; and that it shall be the dutyof saidcaptain
purser or other officer in command, to separate the white and colored
passengers of said boat in the sitting, sleeping and cating apartments:
provided, however, that no discrimination shall be made in the quality
and convenience of accommodation afforded passengers in said locations:
and provided, that this section shall not apply to nurses or attendants
traveling with their employers, nor to oflicers in charge of prisoners.

2. Any captain, purser or other oflicer in command of said boat who
shall fail or refuse to carry out the provisions of section one of this act
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be proceeded against
according to law, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each
otfense.

3. Any passenger or passengers traveling on any steamboat plying in
the waters within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, who shall wil-
fully refuse to occupy the location, whether of sitting, sleeping or eating.
set apart or assigned by the captain, purser or other officer in command
of such boat, or behaves in a riotous or disorderly manner, he, she or they
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall
be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or confined
in jail not less than thirty davs, or both, in the discretion of the court:
and such persons may be ejected from said boat by the officers thereof at
any landing-place of said boat; and, if necessary, such assistance may be
invoked by such person in charge of such boat as they may require to
eject such passenger: and provided, that in case of such ejectment,
neither the ¢ captain or other officer in charge of such boat, nor the steam-
boat company owning or operating the same, shall be liable.

+. This act shall be in force from July first, nineteen hundred and one.