Chap. 163.—An ACT in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same,
to provide for the punishment thereof and for the competency of certain
evidence at the trial thereof.

Approved March 14, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any per-
son who takes, harbors, inveigles, entices, persuades or encourages, either
by threats or promises, or by any device or scheme takes, or causes to be
taken, any female into a house of ill-fame or of assignation, or elsewhere,
against her will, for the purpose of prostitution or illegal sexual inter-
course 3 OT,

Subsection 1. Takes or detains a female unlawfully against her will
with the intent to compel her, by force, threats, persuasion, menace or
duress, to marry him or to marry any other person, or to be defiled ; or
Subsection 2. Being parent, guardian or any other person having
legal charge of the person of a female, consents to her being taken or
detained by any person for the purpose of prostitution or sexual inter-
course, is guilty of pandering, and shall be punished by confinement, for
a term of not less than one year nor more than ten years in the peniten-
tiary, and by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.

2. Any person who shall place any female in the charge or custody
of any other person or persons for immoral purposes, or in a house of
prostitution, with the intent that she shall live a life of prostitution, or
any person who shall compel any female to reside with him, or with any
other person for immoral purposes, or for the purposes of prostitution,
or compel her to live a life of prostitution, is guilty of pandering, and
shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and by
confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one or more than ten
years.

3. Any person who shall receive any money or other valuable thing
for or on account of procuring for or placing in a house of prostitution
or elsewhere any female for the purpose of causing her to cohabit with
any male person or persons, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be confined in the. penitentiary for not less than one
year nor more than ten years.

4. Any person who, by force, fraud, intimidation or threats, places
or leaves, or procures any other person or persons to place or leave his
wife in a house of prostitution or to lead a life of prostitution, shall be
guilty of pandering, and upon conviction thereof shall be confined in the
penitentiary not less than three nor more than ten years.

5. Any person or persons who shall knowingly receive any money or
other valuable thing from the earnings of any feruale engaged in prosti-
tution, except for a consideration deeined good or valuable in law, shall
be guilty of pandering, and on conviction be confined in the penitentiary
for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years, and fined not
more than five hundred dollars.

6. Any person or persons who shall detain any female in a disorderly
house or house of prostitution because of any debt or debts she has con-
tracted, or is said to have contracted, while living in said house of pros-
titution or disorderly house, shall he guilty of felony. and on conviction
thereof shall be confined in the penitentiary for a term not less than one
year nor more than ten years.

%. Any person or persons transporting, or attempting to transport,
by any railroad, steamboat, railway, or by any other means of convey-
ance, through or across this State, any female for the purposes within
the intent of this act, may be presented, indicted, tried and convicted in
any county or city in which the said offender may he apprehended, and
on arrest be taken to any court of competent jurisdiction in anv such
county or city; and the said presentment, indictment and trial shall be
had in the same county or city in which the arrest occurs.

8. Any such female referred to in the foregoing shall be a competent
witness in any prosecution under this act to testify ‘to any and all matters,
including conversations with the accused or bv him with or by third per-
sons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused
either before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this act,
but she shall not be compelled to testify after such marriage.