Chap. 598.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3676 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to kidnapping and the punishment therefor.

Approved January 12, 1904.

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

§ 3676. Kidnapping with intent to extort money; how punished.—If
any person seize, take, or secrete any other person with intent to extort
money, or pecuniary bencfit, he shall be punished with death, or, in the
discretion of the jury, be confined in the penitentiary not less than eight
nor more than eighteen years.

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