Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the Code of 1887, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1894, and as further
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, to provide punish-
ment for maliciously or unlawfully removing or injuring any part of a canal or
railroad, or any bridge or fixture thereof, or for maliciously or unlawfully
obstructing, tampering with, or injuring any machinery, engine, car, or work
thereof, or for maliciously or unlawfully opening, closing, displacing, tampering
with, or injuring any switch, switch point or switch lever, or signal of any rail-
road company.

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-seven hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March third, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-four, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act
approved March fifth, eighteen hundred. and ninety-six, in regard to ob-
structing or injuring canal, railroad, and so forth, how punished, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3725. If any person maliciously obstruct, remove or injure any
part of a canal or railroad, or any bridge or fixture thereof, or mali-
ciously obstruct, tamper with or injure any machinery, engine, car, or
work thereof, or maliciously open, close, displace, tamper with, or injure
any switch, switch point or switch lever, or signal of any railroad com-
pany, whereby the life of any passenger or other person on such canal,
or railroad, is put in peril, he shall be confined in the penitentiary not
less than two nor more than ten years; and, in the event of the death
of any passenger or other person resulting from such malicious act, the
person so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder, the degree to be
determined by the jury.

If such act be committed unlawfully, but not maliciously, the person
so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement
in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years, or, at
the discretion of the jurv, be confined in jail not to exceed twelve months
and fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.