Chap. 263.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3828 of the code of Vir-
ginia,in relation to the sale of intoxicating liquors to minors or certain
students.

Approved February 5, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight of the code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3828. Merchants, or keepers of inns, ordinaries, bar-rooms, or
distilleries, or other persons dealing in intoxicating liquors, or their
employees selling, giving, or furnishing intoxicating liquors, and so
forth, to minors or certain students, how punished.—If any mer-
chant or tradesman, or the keeper of an inn, ordinary, bar-room,
saloon, distillery, or any other person dealing in intoxicating liquors,
sell, barter, give, or furnish, or cause to be sold, bartered, given, or
furnished, or if any person in his employment sell, barter, give, or
furnish any spirituous or intoxicating or malt liquors of any kind
to a minor or to any student of the Hampton normal and agricul-
tural institute or other institution of learning in the state, including
the public schools, he shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than three hundred dollars, and, in the discretion of the
court, to be confined in the county jail not exceeding six months,
and the court shall require him to enter into a recognizance, with
surety, in a penalty not less than five hundred dollars, to be of good
behavior for one year. Any subsequent violation of this section
shall be deemed a forfeiture of the recognizance.

2. This act shall be in force from May first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six.