Wildlife

1871/1872
An ACT to Amend the 40th Section of Chapter 101 of the Code of 1860 to Prevent the Destruction of Wild Fowl in this State.

1872/1873
An ACT for the Protection of Fish in Smith’s River, in the County of Henry.
An ACT to Prevent the Placing of Obstructions in Sycamore Creek, in the County of New Kent.
An ACT for the Protection of Fish in the Middle Fork of Holston River, in Smyth County.
An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Amend the fortieth Section of Chapter one hundred and one of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, to Prevent the Destruction of Wild Fowl in this State

1874
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 17th section of chapter 99 of the Code of 1878, for the protection of Game.
An ACT to protect Mocking Birds in the Commonwealth

1874/1875
An Act to Protect Sheep in the County of Shenandoah
An ACT to provide for the Protection of Fish in James River.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act approved February 11, 1874, and amended by an act approved April 29, 1874, in relation to obstructing Water Courses, &c.

1875/1876
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the Removal of Weirs and Hedges in Rappahannock Creek
An ACT to amend and re-enact section seventeen, chapter ninety-nine of the Code eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the seventeenth section of chapter ninety-nine of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the Protection of Game.

1876/1877
An ACT for the Protection of fish in the waters of the commonwealth above tide-water.
An ACT to raise revenue for the support of free schools and encourage wool-growing in the county of Lee.

1877/1878
An ACT for the protection of wild water-fowl in Accomac county.

1881/1882
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, four, and six of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Warren, approved February 27, 1880.

1882es
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an act to protect sheep in the county of Augusta, and to repeal an act approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, amending and re-enacting section four of the act aforesaid.

1883/1884
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 197 of the Acts of 1881 and 1882, as amended in relation to working public roads and keeping the game in repair, etc., so far as the same relates to certain counties.
An ACT to amend an act approved March 9, 1880, respecting wild game.
An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Mecklenburg.

1884es
An ACT to amend and re-anact sections 8, 6, 11, 15, 22, 34, and 38 of an act approved March 4th, 1884, entitled an act for the preservation of Oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them from the waters of the commonwealth.

1885/1886
An ACT for the better protection of Game in Henry County.
An ACT. for the protection of game in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act for the protection of game, approved March 29, 1877, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1879, and to amend and re-enact the 8th section of an act for the protection of game, approved March 29, 1877.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 514
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of chapter 99 of the Code of 1873, in relation to wild game.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 514 of the acts of 1883-4, entitled an act to amend an act approved March 9, 1880, respecting wild game.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 514 of Acts of Assembly, 1883-4, respecting wild game.

1887es
An ACT for the protection of sheep in Celarville district, Warren county, by a tax upon dogs
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia field-sports association.

1887/1888
An ACT to amend an act respecting wild game in Loudoun
An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Pittsylvania.
An ACT for the preservation of certain useful animals
An ACT to incorporate the Game Point association.

1889/1890 Public Laws
An ACT for the relief of Hezekiah Robinson, of the county of Alleghany.

1891/1892
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 129, Extra Session 1887, for the protection of terrapins.
An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Hanover.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 5 and 6 of an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte, approved March 6, 1874, as to the county of Frederick.

1893/1894
An ACT for the protection of game in Frederick county.
An ACT for the protection of partridges in the county of Pittsylvania, in the State of Virginia, and to prevent their shipment, dead or alive, from the state.
An ACT to regulate the killing and capturing of deer and other game in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Highland and Augusta.
An ACT to protect the fish in the Mattaponi, Pamunkey and York rivers, and to repeal the act approved March 3, 1886, entitled an act to protect the fish in the waters of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in Amherst county.
An ACT for the protection of partridges, pheasants and turkeys in Wythe county.
An ACT for the protection of game in Rockingham county, Virginia.
An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Brunswick.
An ACT to protect Mongolian and English pheasants in King George and Stafford counties.
An ACT to incorporate the Eastern Shore game protection association of Virginia.
An ACT for the protection of certain game in the county of Roanoke.
An ACT to provide for the protection of Antwerp and homing pigeons, and to punish their willful destruction or detention.
An ACT for the protection of game in the counties of Mecklen
An ACT to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT for the protection of certain game in the county of Elizabeth City.
An ACT to protect pheasants and wild turkeys in Spotsylvania
An ACT to protect Mongolian or English pheasants in Spotsylvania and Caroline counties.
An ACT to regulate and restrict shooting and to prevent the de-struction of wild fowl in the waters of Back bay and its tributaries, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia.
An ACT to prevent the extermination of partridges or quails, wild turkeys or pheasants, in the counties of Lee and Scott.
An ACT for the protection of game in the counties of Smyth and Washington.
An ACT for the better protection of game in the county of Nansemond.

1897/1898
An ACT to protect Mongolian pheasants in the county of Louisa.
An ACT to protect game and song birds in the county of King William and to prescribe a penalty for violation of this act.
An ACT to re-enact subdivision 9 of section 19 of chapter 3 of an act approved March 3, 2804, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
An ACT to protect game and birds in the counties of Greenesville and Sussex and to prohibit the sale of partridges, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation of this act.
An ACT to protect wild turkeys in the county of Gloucester
An ACT authorizing board of supervisors to provide for a premium for chicken-hawks killed in the county of Shenandoah.
An ACT for the protection of game and song-birds in the counties of Amelia and Nottoway.
An ACT for the protection of game in Augusta county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled “An act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton”
An ACT to protect wild turkeys in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT for the protection of game and to prohibit the discharge of firearms between the hours of sunset and sunrise upon the waters of the commonwealth in the counties of Chesterfield, Prince George and Charles City.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and four of an act entitled ‘‘An act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or quail) in the state of Virginia,’”
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, and 3 of an act for the protection of game in Rockingham county, Virginia
An ACT to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling, or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys and native pheasants, in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same in traps or the destruction of the eggs of same in said county.
An ACT for the protection of partridges, wild turkeys and the county of Southampton
An ACT to protect Mongolian and English pheasants in Albemarle and Loudoun counties.
AN ACT for the protection of mountain trout in the waters of Pig Piney river in Amherst and Nelson counties.
An ACT for the preservation of quail in the counties of King George and Stafford.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 4, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 161, session 1891-1892, for the protection of terrapins.

1899/1900
An ACT to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, or selling, or offering for sale of partridges and wild turkeys in the county of Dinwiddie, and to prohibit the catching of the same in traps or nets, and to prohibit the taking or destruction of eggs of same in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulat killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling, or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys, hares, robin redbreast, and all native pheasants in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same in traps, or the destruction of the eggs of the same in said county, approvec January 25, 1898, and to apply the provisions of the same to the city of Charlottesville.
An ACT for the protection of game in Mecklenburg county.
An ACT to protect the Mongolian and the cross between the Mongolian and the English pheasant in the counties of Louisa, Albemarle, Loudoun, Fauquier, Alleghany, Bath, Highland, Culpeper, Prince William, Bedford, Augusta, and Montgomery, and the city of Charlottesville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton, 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 regulate the hunting and killing or capturing of partridges (or quail) in the county of Norfolk.
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 protect Mongolian and English pheasants in Rockbridge and Augusta counties.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in Warren county, by a tax on dogs.
An ACT to protect game and birds in the counties of Greenesville and Sussex, and to prohibit the sale of partridges, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation of this act.

1895/1896
An ACT to amend and re-enact first section of acts of 1893 and 1894, chapter 198, for the protection of game in the counties of Charlotte and Mecklenburg.
An ACT for the protection of game and song birds in the counties of Amelia and Charlotte.
An ACT to protect deer, partridges (quail), song birds, wild turkeys, squirrels, hares and wild ducks in the county of King William.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act for the pro-
An ACT to prevent the extermination of game in Clarke county.
An ACT to incorporate the Alleghany rod and gun club.
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 regulate the killing and capture of deer and other game in Botetourt county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of deer in the counties of Shenandoah and Frederick, approved February 24, 1888, to apply only to the county of Shenandoah.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton
An ACT to amend chapter 192, acts 1893-’94, entitled an act for the protection of certain game in Roanoke county.