Chap. 270.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3932 of the Code of Vir-
ginia in relation to chain-gangs, as amended by an act approved December
24, 1903, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact sections 3916, 3918, 3922,
3929, 3932 and 3933 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.

Approved March 13, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-nine hundred and thirty-two of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved December twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and three,
entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections thirty-nine hundred and
sixteen, thirty-nine hundred and eighteen, thirty-nine hundred and
twehty-two, thirty-nine hundred and twenty-nine, thirty-nine hundred
and thirty-two, and thirty-nine hundred and thirty-three of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended,” be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§3932. How chain-gangs for counties and corporations established ;
who required to work in them; when a county has no chain-gang,
supervisors or judge may hire such persons to authorities of a county
or corporation that has one; when a county has a chain-gang, the
supervisors or judge may send such persons to work on public works of
such county located in another county or city. The council of each
city and town and the board of supervisors of each county, or if they
do not act, the judge of the circuit court of such county or of the cor-
poration court of such corporation, may establish chain-gangs in such
city, town or county for the purpose of working on the streets, roads and
public property therein, and of working in or on any other public
property or works owned, leased or operated by such city, town or
county, whether the same be located within said city, town or county,
or in some other city, town or county in the State—LEvery male person
above the age of sixteen years, convicted of a misdemeanor, or of an
offense deemed infamous in law, and sentenced to confinement in jail as
a punishment, or part punishment for such offense, or who is imprisoned
for failure to pay any fine or penalty imposed upon or assessed against
him upon such conviction, or upon conviction for any violation of an
ordinance of any such city or town which by such ordinance is pun-
ishable by confinement in jail or fine, or any male person over sixteen
years of age, who has been convicted of being a vagrant, may be re-
quired to work in such chain-gang. If any county, city or town have
a chain-gang of its own, the supervisors or such council or such judge
may send any persons in such chain-gang to any other city, town or
county to work in or on any public works owned, leased or operated
therein by such county, city or town sending such prisoners. But
nothing in this act shall apply to the right of the proper authorities
to send minors to the reformatories of the State as at present.