Chap. 57.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 100,
Code 1873, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1878, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 31, 1879, in rela-
tion to unlawful fishing.

Approved February 3, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section six of chapter one hundred, Code of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, as amended by the act approved
March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as
amended and re-enacted by the act approved March thirty-

‘first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§6. It shall be unlawful for any person to fish with a purse
net or pound net in any of the rivers of this state, or within |
one mile of the mouth of any river, except that the pound
net may be used in Piankitank river, and purse nets and
pound nets in Rappahannock river, and within two miles of
the mouths of said rivers, or to fish with purse nets in creeks,
or within half a mile of the shore of Chesapeake bay, within
the limits of Elizabeth City, Accomac or Northampton coun-
ties, or to set any pound net, or take fish by means thereof
in any creek within the counties of Accomac and Northamp-
ton or in the Chesapeake bay within one mile and a half of
the mouth of any such creek, or between the first day of
April and the twenty-fifth day of June of any year, on the
eastern side of the said bay within five miles of either of
said counties, or to fish in any of the waters of this state,
within tide-water, with a purse net, pound net, or other fixed
device of any kind, between sunset on Saturday of any week |
and sunrise on Monday of the ensuing week, but during such |
time the bag, purse, or head of any pound net or other fixed
device shall be taken up so that the fish may freely pass
without obstruction.

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