Chap. 282.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act
to prevent cruelty to children and to regulate and provide for their control
and custody in certain cases, approved March 3, 1896.

Approved March 13, 1908.

1 Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled “an act to prevent cruelty to children and to
regulate and provide for their control and custody in certain cases,
approved March third, eighteen hundred and nincty-six,” be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person employing or having the custody of any
child wilfully to cause or permit the life of such child to be endangered
or the health of such child to be injured, or wilfully to cause or permit
such child to be placed in a situation that its life or health or morals
may be endangered, or to cause or permit such child to be overworked,
cruelly beaten, tortured, tormented or mutilated.

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