Chap. 381.—An ACT to protect pheasants and wild turkeys in the county of
ontgomery.

Approved February 19, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person to kill pheasants or wild turkeys or to
capture or offer for sale or to destroy their nests or eggs anywhere in
the county of Montgomery from the date of the passage of this act
until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

2. Any person violating this act shall be arrested and tried before
a magistrate, and, if found guilty, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and fined not less than five nor more than ten dollars and
cost of prosecution for each offence, and imprisoned in the county
jail until the fine be paid, but not exceeding thirty days.

3. In any prosecution for a violation of this act proof of the pos-
session of any such pheasants or wild turkeys, either for the purpose
of sale or consumption, shall be prima facie evidence of his guilt.

4. The operation of section twenty hundred and seventy-nine of
the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and acts amendatory
thereto of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
shall read as follows: It shall be unlawful to kill or capture, or offér
for sale, or buy any pheasants or wild turkeys in the county of Mont-
gomery between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of
October of any year, beginning with the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, or at any time to take or destroy the eggs of pheasants
or wild turkeys.
5. This act shall be in force from its passage. :