Chap. 355.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act ap-
prow May 14, 1887, entitled an act to prevent the destruction of
h, and to prevent the obstruction of the free passage of the same

in Dan river, at or near Danville, Virginia.

Approved March 2, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of an act approved May fourteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an act to prevent the de-
struction of fish, and prevent the obstruction of the free pas-
sage of the same in Dan river, at or near Danville, Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§4. It shall be unlawful, after the passage of this act, for
any person or corporation to catch, or take in or from said
river, from a straight line across said river, from the upper
end of Yarborough’s mill, on the north bank of said river, to
the upper end of the box factory of W. W. Worsham and
company, on the south side of said river, and one hundred
feet above the dam across Dan river at Danville, fish of any
kind whatsoever, by means of traps, nets, or gill-nets, seines,
trot-lines, gigs, grab-hooks, or in any other way or manner
whatever. Any person or corporation violating the provis-
ions of this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, before any
justice of the peace of Danville, or North Danville, be fined
not less than twenty dollars for each offence, and one-half of
such fine shall be paid by the officers collecting the same to
the informers.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are
hereby repealed.

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