CHAPTER 262

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-866, 68-868 and 68-869 of the Code
of Virginia, relating to certain industrial schools. rH 606]

Approved March 138, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 63-366, 63-368 and 63-369 of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 63-366. The Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls shall
be continued as a State institution and shall hereafter be known as Bon
Air School for Girls and shall be conducted for the purposes set forth in
its charter under the control of the State Board; but the Governor and
the State Board, acting jointly, are authorized, whenever they deem it
advisable, to sell and convey the real and personal property, or so much
thereof as may be considered expedient, of the institution, and invest the
proceeds of sale in a home to be used for the same purposes as the present
school is conducted and maintained.

The Department is authorized to * place at such school white females.
who have been * committed to the State Board under § 16-172.44 (4). *

§ 63-368. The Virginia Industrial School for Boys shall be continued
as a separate State institution for the custody, care and training of
incorrigible or delinquent white boys of the Commonwealth, and shall
hereafter be known as Beaumont School for Boys, and shall be under the
control of the Department. Such institution shall be conducted for the
purposes set forth in the charter or act of incorporation of the Prison
Association of Virginia referred to in § 53-19, and it shall not be made a
part of or connected in any way with the penitentiary or any other penal
institution of the Commonwealth.

§ 63-369. The Virginia Manual Labor School for Colored Boys shal]
be continued under the control of the Department, and shall hereafter be
known as Hanover School for Boys and colored boys may be committed to
. such School for the same reasons and with the same effect as they were
formerly committed to the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia.