Fishing

1897/1898
An ACT for the protection of trout in the county of Henrico
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, in relation to fishing in the waters of the commonwealth of Virginia, to provide for levying a tax on fishing devices, and to provide for collecting the same.
AN ACT for the protection of mountain trout in the waters of Pig Piney river in Amherst and Nelson counties.
An ACT to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster-beds, rocks, and shuals in York river, in the county of King and Queen.
An ACT to allow occupants of oyster-planting grounds on Cherry-stone and Hungar’s bars, situated at the mouth of Cherrystone and Hungar’s creeks, in the county of Northampton, to scrape said oyster-planting grounds.

1899/1900
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to create the board of fisheries, define its duties, and fix the salaries of its members, approved February 7, 1898.
An ACT to prohibit the killing of young sturgeon in James river and its tributaries.
An ACT to provide that planters to whom natural oyster rocks have been assigned through mistake shall have a reasonable time to remove their planted oysters therefrom, &c.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Gunstock creek, Bedford county, Virginia.
An ACT to allow B. L. Farinholt to enlarge the area of the pier-head to his wharf at Monaskon, on the Rappahannock river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, 2147 of chapter 97, of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 831 of the acts of 1895 and 1896, approved March 5, 1896, as further amended and re-enacted by chapter 241 of the acts of 1899 and 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 743 of the acts of 1893 and 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2135, 2137, 2148, and the independent sections 3, 5, 8, and 10, and to repeal section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, and 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, and to amend and re-enact sections 2150, 2164, and 2182 of the code of Virginia, and to add independent sections thereto, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2145, 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, which was approved March 2, 1894, approved March 5, 1894.
An ACT for the protection of fish and game in Occupacia creek, the county of Essex, and to prevent obstruction to navigation in said creek.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the code of Virginia, as to right of owners to plant oysters in any creek, &c., within his survey.
An ACT to regulate the taking of oysters from the waters of the Potomac river above a line drawn from Mathias Point, in King George county, Virginia, to Windmill Point, in Charles county, Maryland.
An ACT to authorize the Carter’s creek fish-guano company to erect a wharf on Carter’s creek, in Lancaster county.
An ACT to protect mountain trout in Jenning’s creek or its tributaries, in the county of Botetourt.
An ACT to allow Peyton Hundley to erect a pier in the Rappahannock river, and to build a house thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to fishing in the waters of the commonwealth, to provide for levying a license tax on fishing devices and for the collection thereof, and to extend the provisions of said act to all the waters within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth.
An ACT to prohibit the killing of fish in Clinch river, in the county of Russell, with dynamite or other explosive, and to prescribe a punishment therefor.
An ACT to protect mountain trout in the waters of Rappahannock
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 402 of the acts of 1897 and 1898, annulling and re-enacting section 2088 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 532 of the acts of assembly of 1895-’96, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2088 of the code of Virginia, in relation to hauling seines or setting traps in the waters of Accomac and Northampton
An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 5 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in relation to oysters, approved March 5, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 997 of the acts of assembly of 1897 and 1898, amending and re-enacting independent sections 5 and 8 approved March 4, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 21465, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto
An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries under certain condi-
An ACT to regulate the taking and catching of clams for sale or planting in the waters of the commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to protect mountain trout in the waters of Rockingham county
An ACT to provide for setting apart and designating crabbing grounds in the waters of the commonwealth.
An ACT to re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of fish with seines, weirs, and nets in lake Drummond
An ACT to protect the spawning beds of fish in the waters of Alexandria county, in the Potomac river and its tributaries, in tide-water and above tide-water.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code in relation to fish ladders, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the code of 1887, touching fish ladders,
An ACT to prohibit the taking of fish in Goose creek, in the counties of Fauquier and Loudoun, above Oatlands, with a seine or other device except hook and line or dip-net.
An ACT to prohibit the raking, scraping and roughing of natural oyster rocks on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county.
An ACT to prohibit the killing of fish in Clinch river, in the county of Scott, with dynamite or other explosive, and to prescribe a punishment therefor.
An ACT to prohibit the hauling of seine in the counties of Prince George and Surry.
An ACT to allow J. H. Whealton and E. B. Blackman to build a pier in Rappahannock river near Whealton, at or near the mouth of Moratico creek.
An ACT to regulate dredging or scraping oyster planting grounds, prescribing conditions under which the same may be done, and imposing a penalty for dredging or scraping oyster planting grounds except as provided in this act.

1895/1896
An ACT to protect fish in the York, Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers by preventing fishing with any fixed device in said rivers, except gill stake-nets in water over certain depths, and to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 2, 1894, entitled an act to protect fish in the Mattaponi, Pamunkey and York rivers.
An ACT declaring a certain portion of ground in York river a natural oyster rock.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the fishing of purse nets and pound nets in the tributaries of the Potomac river within the jurisdiction of the counties of Stafford, King George, Westmoreland, and Northumberland, and in the Rappahannock river
An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish with seines, weirs, and nets in lake Drummond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2164 of the code of Virginia in reference to when license to dredge oysters granted to residents: application therefor as amended and re-enacted by act approved March 5, 1894.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Smyth and Washington
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2088 of the code of Virginia, in relation to hauling seines or setting traps in the waters of Accomac and Northampton counties,” approved March 3d, 1892.
An ACT to incorporate the Alleghany rod and gun club.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in Bland, Tazewell, and Smyth counties.
An ACT for the protection and preservation of certain fish in the Potomac river.
An ACT to protect fish in the waters of Roanoke river.
An ACT to incorporate the Broadwater oyster association for the following purposes: To promote by the application of scientific methods, by experimental research, and by all other appropriate means, the propagation, cultivation, and improvement of the oyster; to plant oysters in Virginia waters on the east or ocean side of Northampton county; to fatten oysters in the artificial parks and elsewhere; to shuck and prepare oysters for the market, and to take, buy, sell, and deal in oysters, clams, and other shell fish.
An ACT to repeal chapter 209 Acts of assembly, 1893-’94, for the protection of fish in Roanoke county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 4, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved December 19, 1891 entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 129, extra session, 1887, for the protection of terrapin.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2109 of the code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful fishing.
An ACT to authorize the county court of Wise county to have certain obstruction removed from Guest’s river, in Wise county.
An ACT authorizing inspectors of oysters to assign to the owners, managers, or lessees of hotels ground under the water for bathing ground.
An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish by any person other than the owner in any private pond or stream in Southampton county.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of Clinch river, in Russell county.
An ACT repealing an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in Bland, Tazewell and Smyth counties, so far as it relates to the county of
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 743, of acts of assembly of 1893-’94, with reference to the unlawful taking or catching of crabs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act entitled " an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2138, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2158, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145 and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto," approved February 25, 1892.
An ACT to have the boundaries of certain natural oyster beds, rocks and shoals, in Mathews county, surveyed, and plots made of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2109, code of Virginia, relating to penalty for unlawful fishing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the pro-tection of fish in Pig river and Blackwater, approved February 27, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to prevent trapping and seining in New river and its tributaries

1901/1902
An ACT to encourage the planting of oysters in the deep waters of Chesapeake bay, and to provide the mode of obtaining and holding assignments therein.
An ACT to prohibit the catching of trout in-the waters of Grayson
An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to readjust the Baylor survey on the ocean side of the counties of Accomac and Northampton, and include therein any omitted natural rocks.
An ACT to regulate and restrict shooting and to prevent the destruction of wild fowl in the waters of Back bay and its tributaries, in the county of Princess Anne.
An ACT to prevent clamming in James river and Nansemond river
An ACT to authorize and empower Wilson & Bloxom to build a pier and watch-house in James river at the mouth of Pagan creek.
An ACT to allow John A. Allison to erect a pier on his oyster-planting ground in Moratico creek.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of crabs in the waters of Lynnhaven river and its tributaries, in the county of Princess Anne
An ACT to protect diamond-back terrapins
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2 and 4 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth, to provide for levying a license tax on fishing devices and for the collection thereof, and to extend the provisions of said act to all the waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to declare certain land within the limits of the Baylor survey, on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county, to be barren area and open for planting oysters thereon, and to authorize the assignment of the same for planting purposes.
An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of north fork of Holston river, in the county of Scott.
An ACT to protect fish in the waters of Roanoke river and its tribu-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and to repeal section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the registration of any person, being a resident of this State, who desires to take or catch oysters, for sale or planting, from the natural rocks or shoals on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac and Northampton counties, and prescribing a fine for so taking oysters without being registered, and for the registration of any skiff, scow, bateau, or other small craft used in so taking and catching oysters, providing for a fine for a failure to register the same if the owner be known, and for the sale thereof if the owner be unknown, and to provide for the policing of the waters of the said eastern or ocean side of Accomac and Northampton counties, so as to require a license tax from such persons
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Hunting Club.
An ACT to declare certain grounds in James river, in the county of Isle of Wight, in the State of Virginia, known as Day’s Point Long Rock, to be a natural oyster rock, bed or shoal.
An ACT to encourage the planting of oysters in the deep waters of Chesapeake bay, and to provide the mode of obtaining and holding assignments
An ACT to permit George V. Wagenen, of Middlesex county, Virginia, to erect a pierhead and breakwater on the Rappahannock river.
An ACT to prohibit the use of patent tongs and long shaft tongs in the waters of James river, Virginia.
An ACT to protect fish in the Elizabeth river and its tributaries.
An ACT to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to protect food fish in the fresh-water ponds of Westmoreland county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1145 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide additional requirements where charters are granted to engage in the business of taking or catching fish for the purpose of converting the same into oil or manure in this State.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Blackwater river, in Isle of Wight, Southampton, and Surry counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2137 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2135, 2137, 2148, and the independent sections 3, 5, 8, and 10, and to repeal section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, and to amend and re-enact sections 2150, 2164, and 2182 of the Code of Virginia, and to add independent sections thereto, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, approved February 25, 1892, which was approved March 2, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2083 of the Code of 1887, in relation to the fishing with pound nets in the waters of the eastern side of Chesapeake bay.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act approved
An ACT requiring suitable fish ladders upon the dam across Goose creek at Leesville, Campbell county.

1901es
An ACT to incorporate the sportsmen protective association of Roanoke, Va.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the raking and scraping of natural oyster rocks on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac and Northampton counties.
An ACT for the protection of crabs in the waters of Lynnhaven river and its tributaries in the county of Princess Anne.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to create the board of fisheries, define its duties and fix the salaries of its members
An ACT to repeal an act to prohibit the hauling of seine in the counties of Prince George and Surry
An ACT to prohibit the carrying, or attempt to carry, or the buying for the purpose of carrying out of this state, any oysters taken from the natural rocks, beds, or shoals in the waters of this commonwealth, whose shells measure less than three inches in length, and to require any person from taking or buying such oysters from certain localities to be planted in this state to obtain a license therefor for each boat or vessel so used.
An ACT in regard to hunting and fishing on the lands of Mountain Lake land company and others in Giles county, Virginia.
An ACT to allow George H. Jenkins to build a pier in the Rappahannock river, at the mouth of Deep creek, Lancaster county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 743 of the acts of 1893 and 94, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, and the independent sections 3, 5, 8, and 10, and to repeal section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, and 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145, and 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2133, 2134, 2135, 2148, 2151, 2153, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2145, 2147 of chapter 97 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto.