Chap. 228.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2838 of chapter 132 of the
code of Virginia, relating to dealings with students and gaming.

Approved February 8, 1808.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-eight hundred and thirty-five of chapter one hundred and thirty-
two of the code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 2835. What dealings with students prohibited.—If any money be
lent or advanced, or anything be sold or let to him, or for playing bil-
liards, pocket billiards, pool and bagatelle on credit to or ‘forthe use of any
student or pupil under twenty-one years of age at the University of Vir-
ginia, Virginia military institute, or any incorporated college in this
state, without the previous permission in writing of his parent or guar-
dian or the authorized officers of such institution, nothing shall be re-
covered therefor, and there shall, moreover, be forfeited to the institu-
tion twenty dollars, and the amount or value of such money or other
thing. Where such selling, letting, lending or advancing is by an
agent, such forfeiture shall be by his principal, unless the principal
shall, within ten days after he has knowledge or information of the sell-
ing, letting, lending or advancing, give notice in w riting of the date,
nature and amount thereof to the president or other head of the insti-
tution, in which case the forfeiture shall be by the agent. This section
shall not apply to a person selling or letting in expectation of imme-
diate payment, if he shall within ten days thereafter give notice in writ-
ing of the date, nature or amount of the sale or Ictting to such president
or other head.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.