Chap. 284.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4676 of the Code of ‘i a inia
as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920. 98]

Approved March 15, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-six hundred and seventy-six of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty,
be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4676. Keeping gaming bank, gaming tables, etc., how
punished; seizure of money, tables, etc.; money to be forfeited and
tables, etc., burned.—If any person keep or exhibit, for the purpose of
gaming, any gaming table or bank of any name or description whatever,
or any table or bank used for gaming which has no name, wheel of
fortune or slot machine, any pigeon-hole table or Jennie Lynn table,
whether the game or table be played with cards, dice or otherwise,
or be a partner or concerned in interest in the keeping or exhibiting
such table or bank, he shall be confined in jail not less than two nor
more than twelve months, and fined not less than one hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars. Any such table, bank or wheel of
fortune, and all the money, stakes or exhibits to allure persons to bet
at such table, bank or wheel, may be seized by order of court, or under
warrant of a justice, and the moncy so seized shall be forfeited, one-
half to the person making the seizure, and the other half to the Common-
wealth, and the table, bank, machine or wheel shall be burned.