Chap. 466.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 559 of an act approved
March 1, 1892, acts 1891-’92, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact sections
3807 and 3810 of the code of Virginia, relating to the protection of religious
meetings and meetings for the promotion of the cause of temperance.”

Approved February 24, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act to amend and re-enact sections thirty-eight hundred and seven
and thirty-eight hundred and ten of the code of Virginia, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, relating to the protection of religious
meetings and meetings for the promotion of the cause of temperance,
as amended and re-enacted by chapter five hundred and fifty-nine
of an act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
acts eighteen hundred and ninety-one and ninety-two, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3807. If any person erect or have any booth, stall, tent, carriage,
boat, vessel, vehicle, or other contrivance for the purpose of selling
or otherwise disposing of any spirituous or fermented liquors, or any
other article of traffic, or shall carry on any business whatever growing
out of and dependent wpon such meeting, or sell or otherwise dispose of
any spirituous or fermented liquors, or any other article of traffic,
within three miles of any camp-meeting or other place of religious
worship or place of any public meeting for the promotion of the
cause of temperance, during the time of holding any meeting for
religious worship or for the promotion of the cause of temperance at
such place, he shall for the first offence be fined not less than ten
nor more than twenty dollars and be committed to jail until the fine
and costs are paid, and for the second offence be fined as aforesaid
and confined in jail not less than ten nor more than thirty days.

§ 3810. The supervisor or any justice of the magisterial district
where a religious meeting or other meeting is held for the purpose
of promoting the cause of temperance may appoint a temporary
police to aid in enforcing any of the provisions of section thirty-
eight hundred and five, and the sections following to thirty-eight
hundred and eight, inclusive. The supervisor or any justice of the
magisterial district where a religious meeting 18 held shall, upon the writ-
ten application of the conductor of such meeting, appoint as many tempo-
rary police as may be necessary to enforce order at such mecting, the
authorities of such meeting paying all expenses attending the appointment
of such officers.

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