Chap. 253.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the Code of 1887,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1894, as further
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, and as further
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1904, in regard to
obstructing or injuring any part or work of any canal, railroad, and soforth.
and prescribing punishment therefor.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That section
thirty-seven hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March
fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and as further amended and re-
enacted by an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and
four, in regard to obstructing or injuring any part or work of any canal.
railroad, and soforth,.and prescribing punishment therefor, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

83725. If any person maliciously obstruct, remove, or injure any part
of a canal, railroad, or urban, suburban or interurban electric railway, or
any lines of any electric power company, or any bridge or fixture thereof.
or maliciously obstruct, tamper with, injure, or remove any machinery.
engine, car, trolley, supply or return wires, or any other work thereof, or
maliciously open, close, displace, tamper with, or injure any switch.
switch point, or switch lever, or signal of any such company, whereby the
life of any passenger or other person on such canal, railroad, urban,
suburban, or interurban electric railway, is put in peril, he shall be con-
fined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years; and.
in the event of the death of any passenger or other person resulting
from such malicious act, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty
of murder, the degree to be determined by the jury.

If any act be committed unlawfully, but not maliciously, the person
so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement
in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years, or at the
discretion of the jury, be confined in jail not to exceed twelve months and
fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.