Chap. 64.—An ACT to amend and re-enact 20th section of Chapter 199,
of the Code of Virginia, (edition of 1860), in regard to witnesses in
prosecutions for unlawful gaming.

Passed January 14, 1807.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the twen-
tieth section of chapter one hundred and ninety-nine, of the
Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty), be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 20. No person prosecuted for unlawful gaming shall be
competent to testify against a witness for the commonwealth
in such prosecution, touching any unlawful gaming com-
mitted by him prior to the commencemeyt of such prosecu-
tion; nor shall any witness giving evidence, either before the
grand jury or the court in such prosecution, be ever pro-
ceeded against for: any offence ot unlawful gaming com-
mitted by him at the time and place indicated in such prose-
cution; but such witness shall be compelled to testify; and
for refusing to answer questions, may, by the court, be fined
a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned
for a term not exceeding six months.”

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