Chap. 23.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1797 of the Code of Vie a]
Approved February 13, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, section seven-
teen hundred and ninety-seven of the Code of Virginia to be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1797. Bureau of labor and industry: Duties of said
bureau.—The bureau of labor and industrial statistics is continued
under the name of bureau of labor and industry; and whenever the
words “bureau of labor and industrial statistics,” or other. words de-
noting that bureau appear in any statute heretofore enacted and not
repealed, the same shall be construed to mean the bureau of labor and
industry. It shall be the duty of the said bureau to collect, assort,
systematize, and present in annual reports to the Governor, to be by
him biennially transmitted to the general assembly, statistical details
relating to all departments of labor, penal institutions, and industrial
pursuits in the State, especially in their relation to the commercial,
industrial, social, educational, and sanitary conditions of the laboring
classes and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industries
of the State.