Chap. 157.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 84
of Code of Virginia, edition of 18738, in Reference to the Propagation
of Small-Pox.

Approved March 11, 1875,

1. Be it enacted by the general assem 'T That section ten
of chapter eighty-four of the Code of Virginia, edition of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 10. Any person who shall inoculate himself or another,
or suffer to be inoculated for the small-pox, unless at a hos-
pital established by law, shall forfeit, for every such offence,
rot exceeding three hundred dollars; and if any person shall
bring into this state the small-pox, or any variolous matter
thereof, with the intent of propagating such disease, he shall
be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by con-
finement in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than
five years. And if any person shall wilfully abandon or de-
sert, or cause to be abandoned. or deserted, any person who
issick with: the small-pé&k, upon any of the shores of this
commonwealth, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and
shall be confined therefor in the penitentiary not less than
three nor more than ten years; and if such abandoned per-
son shall die by reason of such wilful abandonment and de-
sertion, the person who abandoned or caused him to be aban-
doned, shall be deemed guilty of murder, and shall be pun-
ished accordingly.

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