Chap. 43.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize
the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction
and maintenance of the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918;

and to provide for the acquisition, preparation nd 7 sisPosition of road mate:
rials for the State highway system and county roads [S B 99)

Approved February 26, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled, ‘‘An act to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the con-
vict road force in the construction and maintenance of the State highway
system,” approved January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 1. The State convict road force as now or hereafter consti-
tuted shall, so far as practicable, be employed in the construction and
maintenance of the State highway system, and to this end may be used
in rock quarries, gravel pits and other plants in the preparation of ma-
terials’ for construction and maintenance of roads.

Section 2. The State highway commission may acquire out of the
proceeds of the money, now or hereafter available for construction and
maintenance of the State highway system, such quarries, gravel pits or
plants as may in its opinion be necessary for such work; and the highway
commission shall on the request of any county road authorities allow
such county road authorities to take from such quarries or gravel pits or
shall sell to such county road authorities at cost of production such ma-
terials as may be required to be used for the construction and mainte-
nance of county roads; but this arrangement must in no way interfere
with the furnishing of materials by the highway commission for the
maintenance or construction of the State highway system.

Section 3. The State highway commission shall make requisition,
from time to time, upon the superintendent of the penitentiary for such
number of the convict road force as it may deem necessary for work on
the State highway system, or for the preparation of road material for
road construction and maintenance, and thereupon the superintendent
of the penitentiary shall send to the place designated by the commission
the number of said convict road force so required, and all of the pro-
visions of chapter eighty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended, not
in conflict with this act, shall apply.

Section 4. All convicts in the State convict road force who are, in
the judgment of the chairman of the State highway commission, not
needed for work on the State highway system, or in the preparation of
materials for construction and maintenance, shall be used in accordance
with the provisions of chapter eighty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as
amended.