Chap. 596.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the code «
ginia, as to obstructing or injuring canals, &c.—how punished.

Approved March 8, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That s
hirty-seven hundred and twenty-five of the code of Virgir
,mended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 3725. Obstructing or injuring canals, railroads, and so forth—
how punished.—If any person maliciously obstruct, remove or in-
jure any part of a canal or railroad, or any bridge or fixture thereof,
or obstruct any machinery, work or engine thereof, whereby the life
of any traveler or other person on such canal or road is put in
peril, he shall be punished by death, or in the discretion of the jury,
be confined in the penitentiary not less than ten nor more than
twenty years; and in event of the death of any traveler or other
person, resulting from such malicious obstructing, removing or 1n-
juring, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder in
the first degree.

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