Chap. 95.—An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Pitt-
sylvania.

Approved February 3, 1888,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall not be lawful for any person to kill and capture, or
offer for sale or buy, any partridge or quail or wild turkeys in
the county of Pittsylvania or city of Danville, between the
fifteenth day of February and the first of November of each
year; nor shall it be lawful at any time to break up their
nests, or to take or destroy their eggs.

2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof before any court or justice of the peace, shall be fined
twenty dollars (one-half of which shall go to the informer),
and shall be imprisoned until said fine is paid, not exceeding
twenty days. The possession of any prohibited bird or egg
within the prohibited period, shall be prima facie evidence of
the violation of this act.

3. This act shall be given in charge to the grand jury by
the judge of the county of Pittsylvania, and also by the judge
of the hustings court of the city of Danville, at every term
at which a regular grand jury shall be impaneled; and it
shall be the duty of all peace officers of said county and city
to prosecute promptly and vigorously all violations of this
act, and in every case of wilful failure to perform this duty,
they shall be fined by the county or city judge twenty dol-
lars.

4, All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provis-
ions hereof, are hereby repealed.

6y (Bia setShall be in force from its, passage: