Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3695 of chapter 181 of the
Code of Virginia.

Approved February 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
iirty-aix hundred and ninety-five of chapter one hundred and eighty-
1c of the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
lows:

83695. Burning dwelling house, jail, prison, boat, and soforth, or barn
taining live stock, and soforth, how punished.—If any person, in the
ght, maliciously burn the dwelling house of another, or any boat or ves-
] or river craft, in which persons usually dwell or lodge. or any jail

' prison. or maliciously set fire to any thing, by the burning whereof
ch dwelling honse, boat, vessel, or river craft, jail or prison shall be
burnt in the night, he shall be punished with death; but if the jury find
that at the time of committing the offense there was no person im the
dwelling house, boat, vessel, or river craft, jail or prison, the offender
shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than
ren years. And any such burning in the daytime shall be punished by
confinement in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than ten
veare. And if any person, in the night, maliciously burn any barn, stable,
shed or other butlding containing live stock, the live stock being in the
huilding at the time of the burning, the offender shall be punished by con-
Anement in the penitentiary not less than’ five nor more than etghteen
JOATS,