1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and eightytwo, chapter two hundred and nineteen, page two hundred and thirty-three, Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-oneeighty- two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the seventh section of the Revised Criminal Code, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 7. If a person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and said pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of the like kind, shall be confiscated by the police justice, magistrate, or court trying the case, and sold by the proper officer at public auction, and the proceeds arising from the sale thereof shall go to the school fund: provided that any police officer, town or city sergeant, constable, sheriff, conservator of the peace, or collecting officer, when in the discharge of his official duty, shall not be amenable to the penalties of this act.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.