Chap. 375.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate and
license pawnbrokers, and to regulate junk dealers and dealers in second hand
personal property, approv ed March 4, 1896, by adding thereto a section requiring
pawnbrokers’ places of business to be closed” during certain hours, and a section
making the displaying of the ordinary sign of a pawnbroker prima facie evi-
dence of guilt in any prosecution,

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted hy the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to reculate and license pawnbrokers and to regulate junk
dealers and dealers in second hand personal property in the cities of
Virginia and county of Henrico, approved March fourth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted by adding thereto the
following sections:

§ 21. That no pawnbroker’s office, shop, store or other place for the
transaction of the pawnbroking business, shall be opened and no busi-
ness of pawning, pledging, loaning or redeeming of any sort of personal
property shall be done in any pawnbroker’s office, shop, store or other
place of business, between the hours of seven o ‘clock in the evening
and seven o'clock in the inorning of any day, except that on Saturday
nights the shop or store may be kept open until ten o’clock: provided,
that nothing contained in this section shall apply to the cities of Nor-
folk and Ly nehburg,

22. That in any prosecution of a person for a violation of this act,
proof of the displaying py such person in front ofidhis:place of business
or residence or other house occupied by him of the ordinary signs of a
pawnbroker, or any of such ordinary signs shall be prima facie evidence
of the conducting of the pawnbroking business.

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