Chap. 143.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March
6th, 1882, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the 7th section of the
Revised Criminal Code, approved March 14th, 1878, to prevent the
carrying of concealed weapons.

Approved February 22, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, chapter two hundred and nineteen, page two hundred
and thirty-three, Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one—
eighty-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the seventh
section of the Revised Criminal Code, approved March four-
teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

_ § 7. Ifa person carry about his person, hid from common
observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or
any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not less than
twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and said
pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of
the like kind, shall be contiscated by the ‘police justice, mag-
istrate, or court trying the case, and sold by the proper offi-

cer at public auction, and the proceeds arising from the sale
thereof shall go to the school fund : provided that any police
officer, town or city sergeant, constable, sheriff, conservator
of the peace, or collecting officer, when in the discharge of
his official duty, shall not be amenable to the penalties of
this act.

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