Chap. 83.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
section 3730 of the Code of Virginia. In relation to pulling down fences
or leaving gates open, and so forth, approved February 16, 1892. [H B 22

Approved February 28, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act. entitled an act, to amend section thirty-seven hundred and thirty
of the Code of Virginia, in relation to pulling down fences or leav-
ing gates open, and so forth, approved February sixteenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 3730. If any person, without permission of the owner,
pull down the fence of another and leave the same down, or, with-
out. permission, open and leave open the gate of another, or any
gate across a public road established by order of court, or if anv
person other than the owner or owners of the lands through which
a line of railroad runs open and leave open a gate at any public or
private crossing of the right-of-way of a railroad, he shall be fined
not. less than five nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered
before a justicé of the peace.