Chap. 562.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of chapter 7 of
the Revised Criminal Code.

Approved March 19, 1884.

1. Bo it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the fifteenth section, chapter seven of the Revised Criminal
Code, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 15. If a person cruelly beat or torture any horse, ani-
mal or other beast, whether his own or that of another, or if
any person having hired from a licensed livery stable keeper
or any other person, any horse, horses, mule or mules, vehicle
or vehicles, shall himself wilfully or negligently injure or
damage the same, or permit any other person wilfully or
negligently to injure or damage the same, by hard or reckless
riding, driving, or using, otherwise than as a man of ordinary
prudence would his own property, or shall hire the same to
any other person, ho shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and fined not less than ten nor more than two hundred dol-
lars.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.