Chap. 140.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the pro-
tection of fish in Bland, Tazewell, and Smyth counties.

Approved January 23, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
one, three, and four of an act entitled an act for the protection of
fish in Bland, Tazewell, and Smyth counties, approved February
twelve, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it
shall be unlawful for any person knowingly and intentionally to
kill or injure any fish by the use of dynamite or any other explosive
or poison thrown or placed in any of the waters of Tazewell and
Smyth counties.

§ 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to so locate their steam
saw-mills in the counties of Tazewell and Smyth that the sawdust
therefrom shall fall into and pollute the streams.

§ 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch fish by
means of seine or traps in any of the waters of Tazewell and Smyth
counties, and for four years after the United States fish commission
shall have placed in the south fork of Holston river, or its tributa-
ries, California trout, or other fish for the stocking of said streams,
it shall be unlawful to take from said streams or destroy in any
way any of such fish or their increase, within the limits of Smyth
county.

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