Chap. 858.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the code of Virginia
of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section
8725 of the code of Virginia, as to obstructing or injuring canals, &c., how pun-
ished, approvd March 3d, 1894.

Approved March 5, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-seven hundred and twenty-five of the code of Virginia of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section thirty-seven hundred and twenty-five
of the code of Virginia, as to obstructing or injuring canals, and so
forth, how punished, approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3725. Obstructing or injuring canals, railroads, and so forth,
how punished.—If any person maliciously obstruct, remove or injure
any part of a canal} or railroad, or any bridge or fixture thereof, or
maliciously obstruct or injure any machinery, engine, car or work
thereof, whereby the life of any traveller or other person on such
canal or railroad is put in peril, he shall be confined in the peniten-
tiary not less than two nor more than ten years; and in the event of
the death of any traveller or other person resulting from such mali-
cious obstructing, removing or injuring the person so offending,
shall be deemed guilty of murder, the degree to be determined by
the jury, or if any person unlawfully, but not maliciously, shoot at
or into, or throw any stone or other missile at or into any passenger
train or car on any railroad, or any part thereof, whereby the iife of
any traveller or other person on such train or cars may be put in
peril, upon conviction thereof he shall be punished by confine-
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ment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years
or in the county or city jail not less than one nor more than twely
months, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.