Chap. 192.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the
governor to grant. a conditional pardon to persons confined in the penitentiary
upon recommendation of the board of directors of said institution, approved
March 3, 1898, as amended by an act approved February 3, 1900.

Approved May 1, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
to authorize the governor to grant a conditional pardon to persons
confined in the penitentiary upon recommendation of the board of
directors of said institution, approved March third, eighteen hundrec
and ninety-eight, as amended by an act approved February third, nine.
teen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Whenever any person is confined in the penitentiary for an}
offense, and shall have served out half of his term of imprisonment
he shall be allowed to file a petition with the board of directors of
said institution, setting forth that he has served half of his term, that
he has kept the prison rules in every respect for the two years next
preceding the date of his petition (if he shall have been confined in
the penitentiary so long), and asking the said board to recommend
him to the governor as a proper person to receive a conditional pardon.

$2. The said board of directors, or any three of them, upon re-
ceipt of said petition, shall inquire into the statements made therein.
and if they find them to be true, and that the convict is a person fit
to receive a conditional pardon, they may recommend him to the
governor for that purpose.

§ 3. The governor, after examining the petition and the proof filed
to sustain it, and the recommendation of the board of directors,
may grant a conditional pardon to the convict upon such conditions
and with such restrictions and under such limitations as he may
deem proper; and he may issue his warrant to the supcrintendent of
the penitentiary to carry such pardon into effect.

§ 4. There shall be attached to the warrant issued by the governor
to the superintendent of the penitentiary, mentioned in the next pre-
ceding section, the conditions and restrictions under which the par-
don is granted, and the said superintendent shall cause a copy thereof
to be certified to the clerk of the court in which the offender was
convicted, to be preserved by the said clerk as other records are.

§ 5. When a convict is pardoned on conditions to be observed and
performed by him, and such conditions are violated, he shall, upon
complaint being made before a justice of the peace or any other offi-
eer authorized by law to issue warrants of arrest, be forthwith ap-
prehended and brought before the judge of the court in which
he was convicted, and the said judge is directed to investigate
the charges, either in term time or in vacation, and if the said per-
son is found guilty of violating the conditions of his pardon he shall
be returned to the penitentiary, there to serve out the unexpired
term of his sentence; and in computing the time of his confinement
the time between the conditional pardon and his subsequent arrest
shall not be taken to be a part of the term of his imprisonment.

§ 6. This act is not to be construed as in any way interfering with
or abridging the authority now conferred on the governor by law with
reference to granting absolute pardons.

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