Chap. 408.—An ACT making it larceny to receive money or other thing of value
with intent to injure or defraud, from anv person engaged in the cultivation
of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudu-
lently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other
thing of value so received. [H

Approved March 21, 1924.

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 con-
tract of employment, oral or written, for the performance of personal
service to be rendered within one year, in and about the cultivation of
the soil and thereby obtains from the landowner, or the person so en-
gaged in the 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, he shall be
deemed guilty of larceny of the said money or other thing of value so
received; provided, however, that prosecutions hereunder shall be com-
menced within sixty days after breach of such contract.