Chap. 316.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4497 of the cone of Vir-
ginia. B 256)
Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-four hundred and ninety-seven of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4497. Acceptance thereof by officer; how punished.—If any
executive, legislative, judicial officer, sheriff, constable or police officer,
or any candidate for such office accept in this State, or if, being
resident in this State, such officer or candidate shall go out of this
State and accept, and afterwards return to and reside in this State,
any gift or gratuity, or any promise to make a gift or do any act
beneficial to such officer or candidate under an agreement, or with
an understanding that his vote, opinion, or judgment shall be given
on any particular side of any question, cause, or proceeding which is
or may be by law brought before him in his official capacity, or
that in such capacity he shall make any particular nomination or ap-
pointment or take or fail to take any particular action, or perform
any duty required by law, he shall, upon conviction, be confined in
the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years, and shall
forfeit his office and be forever incapable of holding any: post men-
tioned in section two hundred and eighty-nine. The word candidate
as used in this and the preceding section, shall mean any one who
offers himself or is put forward by others as a suitable person or an
aspirant for such office.