Chap. 500.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1781 of the Code of Virginia.
Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and eighty-one of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1781. Bond of person obtaining bodies; penalty for trafficking in
them ; their importation.—Neither the university, nor any college, school,
physician, or surgeon shall be allowed to receive any such body until a
bond shall have been given to the Commonwealth by such physician or
surgeon, or by or in behalf of the university, or such college or school, to
be approved by the judge of the circuit court, county clerk, or Common-
wealth’s attorney of the county or the judge of the corporation court, the
clerk thereof, or Commonwealth’s attorney of the corporation in which
such physician or surgeon resides, or in which the university or such col-
lege or school is situated, and filed in the office of the clerk of said court,
in the penalty of one thousand dollars, with condition that all such bodies
which the said physician or surgeon, or the university or said college or
school, as the case may be, shall receive thereafter, shall be used only for
the promotion of medical science within this State. If any person sell
or buy any such body, or in any way traffic in the same, or transmit or
convey, or procure in order to be transmitted or conveyed, any such body
to any place outside of this State, he shall be fined not exceeding two
hundred dollars, or, in the discretion of the jury, be confined in jail not
exceeding one year: provided, that the board may, in its discretion, on the
application of any person, empower such person to import into this State
and traffic in such anatomical material and pathological specimens as the
board may designate. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as re-
pealing an act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
giving the State board of embalmers of Virginia the authority to use
bodies in its schools for teaching embalming.

2. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of February,
nineteen hundred and four.