Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-05-11
SOME NEW LAWS,
OF Interest to This People, Passed
By the Recent LEGISLATURE.

Df ttie kSCSiit Legislature.
CHAP. 209-1. All allowances made
by order of any circuit or corporation
court, unless presented to the auditor
of public accounts for payment
within two years from the date of
allowance, shall not be paid out of
the treasury.
Scrapes. Drag Boxes, Etc.
: CHAP. 207.-1. 1t shall be un-
lawful for any person to use, in col
lecting and taking oysters from the
natural oyster rocks or beds of this
Commonwealth, any ''drag box" tub,
sack, or other receptacle for oysters
so collected or taken, which in the
use or moving of are dragged or
drawn over the surface of che said
natural rocks or beds.
2. The possession by any person of
a "drag box" on the natural oyster
rocks or beds of this Commonwealth
shall be prima facie evidence of it's
use.
3. Any person violating any of
the provisions of this act shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined not less
than five nor more than twenty dol
lars for each offense.
Slot Machines.
81. If any person keep or exhibit,
or be concerned in interest in keep
ing or exhibiting. any slot machine
of any description into which are
dropped pennies or nickles or coins
of any other denominations, or other
device that operates Oh the nickle-in-
the-slot principle, 10 the operating
of which said machine or device the
element of chance enters in, or per-
NIT such machine or device to be
kept or exhibited in his place of
business, or any other place in this
State; and the possession of the afore-
said machine or device shall be prima
facie evidence of the use thereof; and
upon conviction for either offense he
shall be confined in jail not less than
fifteen days nor more than sixty days
and fined not less than one hundred
nor more than five hundred dollars,
and said machine or device shall be
deemed gaming apparatus; provided,
that this act shall not apply to any
slot machine or device that operates
on the nickle-in-the-slot principle,
in the operation of which said ma
chine the element of chance does
not enter, and which is used exclu-
sively for any of the following pur-
poses-to-wit: For conducting pay
telephone, for musical, weighing, or
other similar purposes, or for dispos-
ing of cigars in which one or more
cigars are sold with each nickle de-
posed in the slot machine or device
that operates on the nickle-in the
slot principle, or for the disposing of
chewing gum or articles of merchan-
disc other than cigarettes and intoxi-
eating liquors.
Establish Public High Schools.
CHAP. 211-1. 1t shall be lawful
for any district school board or dis
tricts school boards to establish
and maintaia public high school
at such place as may be both most
convenient for the pupils who at
tend and most conducive to the pur-
poses of such school: provided, that
the high school may be conducted
either in suitable building provided
for that purpose, or in the same
building with one of the graded
schools of the district, in which said
high school is established, but nc
State funds shall be appropriated
under this act for high school pur.
poses until provision has beer made
to maintain, for a term of at least
five months in each year, the pri,
mary and grammer schools of the
district or districts establishing said
high school in such county or count
les.
2. Two or more districts in the
same or adjoining counties may unite