Chap. 180.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3799 of the Code as
amended by an agt approved March 2, 1904, entitled an act to amend section
3799 of the Code of Virginia respecting violations of the Sabbath, so as to
provide the right of appeal from judgment in such cases.

Approved March 11, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-seven hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended
hy an act approved March second, nineteen hundred and four, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3799. Violation of the Sabbath; how punished—If a person on
the Sabbath day be found laboring at any trade or calling, or employ
his apprentices or servants in labor or other business, except in house-
hold or other work of necessity or charity, he shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less
than five dollars for each offense. Every day any person or servant
or apprentice is so employed shall constitute a distinct offense
and the court in which or the justice by whom any judgnrent of
conviction is rendered may require of the person so convicted a recog-
nizance in a penalty of not less than one hundred or more than five
thousand dollars, with or without security, conditioned that such
person shall be of good behavior, and especially to refrain from a repe-
tition of such offense, for a period not exceeding twelve months.