Chap. 73.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 100 of the Code of 1878, in re-
lation to unlawful fishing. .

Approved February 20, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section six,
chapter one hundred of the Code of Virginia, edition of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act ap-
proved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 6. All persons are hereby prohibited from using the purse
nets in any of the rivers or creeks of this state or within
two miles of the mouth of any river or creek; and also, are
prohibited from using the purse nets in the Chesapeake bay
at night or on Sunday. And no person shall take or catch
any fish in or from any rivers or creeks of this common-
wealth below tide-water, or within two miles of the mouths
of said rivers or creeks, except the creeks which empty into
Mobjack bay; and also, except the creeks which empty into
Chesapeake bay on its western shore north of the mouth of
York river, by means of any pound net or trap, or anywhere
with such nets or traps within the waters of this common-
wealth during the months of June, July, and August; nor
shall any person put out any pound net, purse net, trap, or
fixed apparatus of any kind in any of the tidal waters of
this commonwealth so as to occupy 01 obstruct more than
one-third of said waters. And any person violating the pro-
visions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be
fined not less than twenty-five nor more than seventy-five
dollars.

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