Chap. 13.—An ACT to make it larceny to receive money or other thin
of value with intent to injure or defraud, from any person engag
in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for per-
sonal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service
or refund such moncy or other thing of value so received. (H. B. 8.)

Approved February 5, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
if any person, with intent to injure or defraud his employer,
enters into a written contract of employment or for the perform-
ance of personal service to be rendered within one year in and
about the cultivation of the soil and thereby obtains from the
land owner, or the. person so engaged in said cultivation of the
soil, money or other thing of value under such contract, and
fraudulently refuses to perform such service, or to refund the
said money or other thing of value so obtained, shall be deemed
guilty of the larceny of the said money or other thing of value
so received.