Chap. 179.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1916,
entitled an act to make it larceny to receive money or other thing of
value with intent to injure or defraud, from any person engaged in the
cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal ser-
vice, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund
such money or other thing of value so received. [H B 350]

Approved March 14, 1918.

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 contract of employment, oral or written, 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 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; provided, however,
that prosecutions hereunder shall be commenced within sixty days
after breach of such contract.