Chap. 426.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3061 of the Code of Virginia,
1924, in reference to the establishment of chain gangs. [H B 361]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty sixty-one of the Code of Virginia, ninetecn hundred and twenty-
four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: |

Section 3061. How chain gangs for cities and* towns of the Com-
monwealth of Virginia may be established.—The council of each city
or town of the Commonwealth of Virginia may establish chain gangs
in such city or town under such regulations as the council of said city
or town may prescribe, for the purpose of working on the streets, roads
and public property therein, farms owned or leased by such city or
town, and of working in or on any other public property or works
owned, leased or operated by such city or town, whether the same be
located within’such city or town or in the county where such city or
town is situated. Every male person above the age of eighteen
years, who is convicted for any violation of an ordinance of any such
city or town, which by such ordinance is punishable by confinement
in jail or fine, and who is imprisoned as a punishment or for failure to
pay such fine, shall be liable to work in such chain gang; but nothing
in this section shall abridge the right of the proper authorities to send
minors to the reformatories of the State.

In every city or town which does not maintain a chain gang within
the meaning of this section, the provisions of section twenty hundred
and seventy-five shall apply.