Chap. 10.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2094 of the Code of Virginia.
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Approved February 4, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two thousand and ninety-four of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2094. Jail prisoners on road or quarry force to be allowed
credit for good behavior.—All persons sentenced by any of the courts
of this Commonwealth, or by a justice of the peace, to work on thé
public roads or in public quarries, in lieu of jail sentence, and all
persons confined in jail who are worked on said road or quarry force,
shall be allowed credit for good behavior on their sentences to the
same extent and upon the same terms as are provided for convicts
in the penitentiary. When any prisoner is sentenced by any court
or justice to work on the public roads or quarries, it shall be the
duty of the judge or justice immediately to notify the superintendent
of the penitentiary of such sentence in each case.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.