Chap. 646.—An ACT to amend section 2071 of the code of Virginia, 1887, as
amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2071 of the
code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful hunting, &c., on another’s land,”
approved January 28, 1890,as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an
act to amend section 2071 of the code of 1887, in relation to unlawful hunt-
ing, &c., on another’s lands,” approved January 31, 1890, as amended and re-
enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 2071 of the code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful hunt-
ing, &c.,on another’s land,’ approved January 28, 1890, approved March 3,
1892, so as to provide penalties and punishments for going upon the land of
another after being warned not to doso.

Approved March 8, 1896.
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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two thousand and seventy-one of the code of Virginia, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act entitled “an act to
amend and re-enact section two thousand and seventy-one of the
code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful hunting, and so forth, on
another’s land,” approved January twenty-eight, eighteen hundred
and ninety, as amended by an act entitled “an act toamend section
two thousand and seventy-one of the code of eighteen hundred and
elghty-seven, in relation to unlawful hunting, and so forth, on an-
other’s lands,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and
ninety, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend an act enti-
tled an act to amend and re-enact section two thousand and seventy-
one of the code of Virginia, in relation to unlawful hunting, and so
forth, on another’s land, approved January twenty-eight, eighteen
hundred and ninety,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2071. Unlawful hunting, trespassing, and so forth, on another’s
lands.—If any person, without the consent of the owner or tenant,
shoot, hunt, range, fish, trap or fowl on or in the lands, waters, mill.
ponds, or private ponds of another, which are inclosed, or the boun-
daries of which, or the streams adjacent to which, constitute a law-
ful fence, or on any lands, waters, mill-ponds or private ponds of
another, east of the Blue Ridge, or in the waters on said lands, he
shall be deemed guilty of a trespass, and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined not less five dollers nor more than fifty dollars, and,
in addition thereto, shall be liable in action for damages; and if any
person, after being warned not to do so by the owner or tenant of
any premises, shall go upon the lands of the said owner or tenant he
shall, in addition to the liabilities imposed under this section, be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, pun-
ished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the
county jail not exceeding sixty days, or both, in the discretion of
the jury.

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