Chap. 69.—An ACT to Amend Section 6, Chapter 201 of the Qode of
' 1873, with Reference to Larceny.

Approved February 28, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section six of chapter two hundred and one of the Code of
Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“8 6. In a prosecution against a person accused of embez-
zling 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 numbor 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 suffi-
cient to allege thé embezzlement or fraudulent conversion to
be of money, without specifying any particular money, gold,
silver, note or security; and such allegation, so far as it re-
gards the description of the property, shall be sustained, if
the accused be proved to have embezzled any bullion, money,
bank note, or otber security for money, although the partic-
ular species be not proved. And ina prosecution for the
larceny of United States currency, or for obtaining United
States currency by a false pretense or token, or for receiving
United States currency, knowing the same to have been
stolen, it shall be sufficient, if the accused be proved guilty
of the larceny of national bank notes or United States trea-
sury notes, or of obtaining the same by false pretence or to-
ken, 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 its passage.