Chap. 529.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3693 code of Virginia, as
to prize fighters, how punished, and to prohibit prize fighting and pugilism
and fights between men and animals.

Approved February 28, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-six hundred and ninety-three, code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3693. Prize fighters, pugilism, and fights between men and ani-
mals; how punished.—Any person who shall voluntarily engage in
a pugilistic encounter between man and man, or a fight between a
man and bull or any other animal, for money or other thing of value,
or for any championship, or upon the result of which any money or
anything of value is bet or wagered, or to see which any admission
fee is charged, either directly or indirectly, shall be deemed guilty
of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement
in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. By
the term “ pugilistic encounter,” as used in this act, is meant any
voluntary fight or personal ensounter by blows by means of the fiste
or otherwise, whether with or without gloves, between two or more
men. for money or for a prize of any character, or for any other thing
of value, or for any championship, or upon the result of which any
money or anything of value is bet or wagered.

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