Chap. 13.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to punish
as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive language to another, ap-
proved March 4, 1896.

Approved February 9, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act enti-
tled an act to punish as for a misdemeanor a person using abusive lan-
guage to another, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if any
person shall, in the presence or hearing of another, curse or abuse such
person, or use any violently abusive language to such person concerning
himself or any of his female relations, under circumstances reasonably
calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, he shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction fined in any sum not less than two dollars and
fifty cents nor more than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the
justice trying the case.