CHAP. 364.—An ACT to promote safety of travel on the highways of this
Commonwealth, and to provide penalties for the violation a same.

. 495.)
Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be unlawful for any one to put or cast into any public
road of this Commonwealth any glass bottles, or any glassware,
crockery, porcelain, or pieces thereof, or any pieces of iron, or
hard or sharp metal, or any nails, tacks, or sharp or pointed in-
struments of any kind, likely in their nature to cut or puncture
any tire of any vehicle, or to injure any animal traveling
thereon.

2. Any person found guilty of wilfully and maliciously
violating this act with intent to do the injuries above described,
or any of them, shall be convicted of a misdemeanor, and shal
be confined in jail for a period not exceeding twelve months and
fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and any person whc
may carelessly, but not with intent aforesaid, violate this act,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding twenty
ollars.

3. An action of damages shall lie against any person vio-
lating the provisions of this act, for loss or injury sustained,
by any one so aggrieved.