Chap. 604.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3994 of the code of Virginia
relating to what number of offences may be charged in prosecution for embez-
zlement if committed within six months; what des scription of money suflicient
In prosecution for embezzlement; what for larceny.

Approved March 1, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-nine hundred and ninety-four of the code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3094. In prosecution for embezzlement any number of offences may
be charged, if committed within six months; what description of money
sullicient in prosecution for embezzlement; what for larceny.—In a
prosecution against a person accused of embezzling, or fraudulently
converting to his own use bullion, money, bank notes, or other security
for money, it shall be lawful in the same indictment, or accusation, to
charge, and thereon to proceed against, the accused for any number of
distinct acts of such embezzlements, or fraudulent conversions which
may have been committed by him within six months from the first to
the last of such acts; and it shall be sufficient to allege the embezzle-
ment or fraudulent conversion to be of money, without specifying any
particular money, gold, silver, note, or security; and such allegation, so
far as it regards the description of the property shall be sustained, if
the accused be proved to have embezzled any bullion, money, bank
note, or other security for money, although the particular species be
not proved.

And in a prosecution for the larceny of United States currency, or for
obtaining United States currency by a false pretence or token, or for re-
ceiving United States currency knowing the same to have been stolen, it
shall be suflicient, if the accused be proved guilty of the larceny of na-
tional bank notes or United States treasury notes, certificates for cither
gold or silver coin, gold or silver coin, fractional coin, currency, or anv
other form of money issued by the United States government, or of ob-

taining the same by false pretence or token, or of receiving the same,
knowing it to have been stolen, although the particular species be not
proved.

2. This act shall be in force from passage.