CHAP. 435.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3799 of the Code oi
Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted in relation to violatior
of the Sabbath; how punished, and providing that the delivery o!
ice cream on the Sabbath day, where said ice cream has been manu:
factured on some day other than the Sabbath day shall be construed
to be a work of necessity. (H. B. 819.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-seven hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3799. Violation of the Sabbath; how punished.—If
a person on the Sabbath day be found laboring at any trade or
calling, or employ his apprentices or servants in labor or other
business, except in household or other work of necessity or char-
ity, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars for each
offense. Every day any person or servant or apprentice is so
employed shall constitute a distinct offense and the court in
which, or the justice by whom any judgment of conviction is
rendered may require of the person so convicted a recognizance
in a penalty of not less than one hundred or more than five thou-
sand dollars, with or without security, conditioned that such per-
son shall be of good behavior, and especially to refrain from a
repetition of such offense, for a period not exceeding twelve
months. Provided that for the purpose of this act, the delivery
yn the Sabbath day of ice cream manufactured on some day
other than the Sabbath day shall be construed as a work of
necessity.