Fishing
| An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish in the eastern branch of the Elizabeth river with pound-nets, fyke-nets, or other devices than gill-nets and hook and line. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2136 of the Code of Virginia as to right of owners in any creek, etc., within his survey |
| 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, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1900, and as amended by an act approved March 14, 1902. |
| An ACT to authorize J. W. Massey and T. H. Massey to erect |
| An ACT to authorize John D. Armstrong to erect a dock, pier, or watch-house upon his oyster ground in James river. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact section 1 of an act entitled “an act requiring suitable fish ladders upon the dam at Goose creek, at Leesville, Campbell county,” approved March 28, 1902. |
| An ACT to repeal an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled 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 Back bay and its tributaries. |
| An ACT to repeal an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled 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 amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act approved February 25, 1892, in relation to oysters, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1896, as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1900, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact. section 2083 of the Code of 1887, in relation to fishing with pound nets in the waters of the eastern side of Chesapeake bay |
| An ACT to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act. |
| An ACT to amend section 2 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural 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 authorize John D. Armstrong to erect a dock, pier, or watch-house upon his oyster ground in James River. |
| An ACT to authorize parties planting oysters on ground rented from the State to erect piers, docks, or watch-houses on the same. |
| An ACT to amend section 2 of an act of the general assembly approved May 5, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, with several amendments thereto, so far as it relates to the counties of King George and Stafford. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact section 1 of an act entitled "an act requiring suitable fish ladders upon the dam at Goose creek, at Leesville, Campbell county" |
| An ACT to authorize and appoint a special joint committee of the house and senate to investigate leasing out barren area and exhausted oyster bottom within the Baylor survey. |
| An ACT to repeal an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled 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 Back bay and its tributaries. |
| An ACT to repeal an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled 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 amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, and by previous acts, in relation to the time for taking oysters, and to prohibit the use of patent tongs. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act approved February 25, 1892, in relation to oysters |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2083 of the Code of 1887, in relation to fishing with pound nets in the waters of the eastern side of Chesapeake bay |
| An ACT to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act. |
| 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, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1900, and as amended by an act approved March 14, 1902. |
| An ACT to authorize J. W. Massey and T. H. Massey to erect a pier in the James river off Warwick county. |
| An ACT in relation to fish ladders on the Rapidan river between the counties of Culpeper, Orange, and Madison. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 536, acts of assembly 1902-703-04, approved December 31, 1903, entitled an act to authorize parties planting oysters on grounds rented from the State to erect piers, docks, or watch-houses on the same. |
| An ACT to have plats of oyster-planting grounds endorsed “abandoned” under certain conditions, and to authorize the renting of such ground. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of fisheries to procure for use in its office a complete list of persons holding oyster planting ground by assignment of record in the clerk’s offices, and the number of ‘acres held by each, and the number of acres occupied for oyster planting not of record in said clerk’s offices. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act requiring suitable fish ladders upon the dam across Goose creek, at Leesville, Campbell county. |
| An ACT to protect certain fish in the bays, creeks, inlets and streams tributary to the Potomac river, in the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the waters of the north fork of Holston river, in the county of Scott |
| An ACT making it lawful to take or catch eels in the waters of Back bay and its tributaries, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, and providing how bait shall be caught. |
| An ACT to repeal an act approved March 14, 1904, entitled ‘an act in relation to fish ladders on the Rapidan river,” etc. |
| An ACT for the protection of fish in the Nottoway river and its tributaries in Southampton, Sussex, Dinwiddie, Brunswick, and Greenesville counties, Virginia. |
| An ACT to prohibit the setting and fishing of purse nets in Craddock creek. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, as amended by an act approved April 24, 1903, and by previous acts, in relation to the time for taking oysters, and to prohibit use of patent tongs. |
| An ACT for the protection of fish in the Shenandoah river and its tributaries. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of chapter 96 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful fishing. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2154 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to prohibit the use of “drag boxes,” tubs, sacks, or other receptacles for the collecting and taking oysters from the natural oyster rocks or beds of this Commonwealth, when in the use of the same they are dragged or drawn over the said natural rocks or beds. and prescribing a penalty for its violation. |
| 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 regulate the taking of seed oysters in a certain part of the Potomac river, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act. |
| An ACT to provide a cull law for the Potomac river, and to impose penalties for the violation of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, to prevent non-residents from being concerned or interested in fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth for the purpose of manufacturing the same into oil, fish scrap or manure, or in such manufacture. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2099 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2099 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, with relation to license required for catching fish for oil or manure. |
| An ACT to provide for fish wardens of State; their duties and com- compensation. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 1, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia; and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 5, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia; in relation to fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth; to provide for levying a license tax of 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 amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to protect cer- |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2080 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hauling seines or setting traps in the waters of Accomac and Northampton |
| An ACT to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to amend an act approved January 30, 1900, to prohibit the killing of fish in Clinch river, in the county of Russell. |
| 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, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by act approved March 14, 1902, by act approved May 5, 1903, and by act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100, 2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903; an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tidewater, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crabbing grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth, approved February 3, 1900; an act entitled an act to provide for clam- ming grounds in the waters of this State, approved March 8, 1894. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of the act entitled an act for the protection of fish in Washington county, Virginia |
| An ACT to protect fish in the Blackwater river, within the county of Isle of Wight. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2106 of the Code of Virginia as to penalty for failure to comply with section 2105 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Virginia, as to unlawful fishing and to prescribe the time for catching bass. |
| An ACT to protect fish in the waters of Roanoke city, Roanoke county and Montgomery county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 30, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1910, in regard to prohibiting the killing of fish in Clinch river, in the county of Russell, with dynamite or other explosives and poisons, and to prescribe a punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to prevent the catching of fish by gill nets or seines in the rivers and streams of the county of Rockbridge. |
| An ACT providing for the enactment of concurrent legislation regarding the fish and shellfish industry in the Potomac river in accordance with the compact entered into between the States of Maryland and Virginia on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, and to repeal all acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Virginia, as to unlawful fishing, and to prescribe the time for catching bass,” approved March 16, 1910, so as to exclude from the operation thereof New river, in Wythe county, Virginia, and to prevent the catching of fish with seines in certain waters of said county. |
| An ACT to prohibit the taking or removing of fish, except such as are excepted, from the water courses of the county of Augusta. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct the register of the land office |
| An ACT to prohibit the use of gill nets or seines, or the taking of fish therewith, in the waters of Dan river, any lake or pond formed thereby, or any back-water therefrom, within Pittsyl-vania county and the corporate limits of the city of Danville. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections two, six, eleven, twelve and fifteen of section two thousand and eighty-six of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT requiring two suitable fish ladders at suitable places upon the mill dam across Clinch river at Speers’ ferry, Scott county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to repeal an act to protect fish in the Blackwater river, within the county of Isle of Wight |
| An ACT for the protection of fish in the Meherrin river |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of the act entitled an act for the protection of fish in Washington county, Virginia, approved March 8th, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14th, 1910. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, by an act approved March 8, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by an act approved March 14, 1902, by an act approved May 5, 1903, and by act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 21€0, 2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903, an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tidewater, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crab- bing grounds in the waters of the commonwealth, approved February 38, 1900; an act entitled an act to provide for clamming grounds in the waters of this State, approved March 8, 1894, approved March 14, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 7 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, ds amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by an act approved March 14, 1902, by an act approved May 5, 1903, and by an act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100, 2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903; an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tide water, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crab-</p> |
| An ACT to regulate the taking of fish from streams west of the Blue Ridge mountains. |
| An ACT to prohibit fishing in the rivers and creeks of Scott county, with seines more than sixteen feet in length. |
| An ACT to establish a closed season for menhaden fishing, to prescribe the size of the mesh to be used in said fishing, and to provide a penalty for the violation of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent the catching of fish by gill nets or seines in the rivers and streams of the county of Rockbridge |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the taking or removing of fish, except such as are excepted, from the water courses of the county of Augusta |
| An ACT to prohibit fishing within 500 yards of the mill dam across Clinch river, at Speer’s Ferry, Scott county, Virginia, and to cause the supervisors of said county to have fish ladders put on said dam, as directed by an act approved March 13, 1912. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 6 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13. 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact subsections 2, 6, 11, 12, and 15 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT for the relief of James F. Bonewell, of the county of Warwick, and appropriating money therefor. |
| An ACT for the protection of oysters and clams in the Lynnhaven river, Princess Anne county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to regulate the shooting and to prevent the destruction cf wild water fowl in the waters of Back Bay and its tributaries, and the lands adjacent thereto, in the county of Princess Anne. |
| An ACT to prohibit the use of dredges or scrapes while taking oysters or clams in Pocomoke sound, to define the evidence of such violation, and to fix a penalty therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1912, entitled an act to regulate the taking of fish from streams west of the Blue Ridge mountains. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shell fish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act |
| An ACT to create a State department of game and inland fisheries, and providing for the issuing of licenses to provide revenue for the support of such department, and imposing penalties for violation. |
| An ACT to provide for keeping open and unobstructed by fixed fishing devices continuous passages or ways to permit fish from the ocean and the waters of the Chesapeake bay to ascend the rivers of the State to the localities in which shad deposit their spawn; to provide for designating, defining or marking the said passages or ways and the said spawning localities; to prohibit the use of fixed fishing devices in said passages or ways and of haul seines in the said spawning localities; defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor. |
| An ACT to prohibit the hunting, shooting, fishing or trespassing upon the lands of any person in county of Loudoun without permission in writing. |
| An ACT to prohibit the hunting, shooting, fishing or trespassing upon the lands of any person in the county of Amherst, without permission in writing from the land owner, his agent or representative. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate in one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly and any sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the Meherrin river |
| An ACT making it unlawful to anchor small boats in the channels of Norfolk and Portsmouth harbors, or within three hundred feet thereof, above Craney Island, and prescribing punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to provide for the examination of the oyster and clam beds and waters of Virginia; to provide for the marking of polluted areas and to prohibit the taking of oysters and clams from polluted areas; defining violations of the act and fixing penalties therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 10, 35 and 86 of an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to revise, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2, 6, 9, 10 and 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore a B14 |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of chapter 348 of acts 1910, entitled an act to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate into one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act. |
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