Chap. 153.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter .301 of the
acts of 1918, entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work
of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds
therefor, approved March 16, 1918. {S B 102]

Approved March 10, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one of chapter three hundred and one, of the acts of nineteen
hundred and eighteen, entitled an act to regulate the treatment,
handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary,
and to appropriate funds therefor, approved March sixteenth, nine-
teen hundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

1. Every person sentenced to the penitentiary shall be allowed
ten cents per day for each day he works, to be paid out of the ap-
propriation hereinafter provided for, so long as the same is sufh-
cient.

The money earned by said prisoners shall accumulate and be
paid over to the said prisoner at the time of his discharge, one-half
may be drawn upon by said prisoner for the purchase of such things
as the prisoner may desire, and for other purposes by and with the
approval of the superintendent.