Chap. 748.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28th, 1894,
to regulate the killing or capturing of game in the counties of Alleghany,
Bath, Highland and Augusta.

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, entitled an act to regulate the killing and capturing of deer
and other game in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Highland and
Augusta, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it
shall not be lawful to kill or capture any deer or chase the same with
dogs in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Highland, Augusta and
Rockbridge, at any time except between the first day of October and
the first day of December of each year.

§ 2. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section,
shall, for each offence, be fined not less than fifty dollars or more
than one hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail
until the fine and costs are paid, but such imprisonment shal! not
exceed the term of thirty days; one-half of any fine imposed under
this act shall go to the informer. The possession of any fresh ven-
ison or green deerskins during the prohibited period shall be prima
facie evidence of the violation of this act.

§ 3. It shall be unlawful to kill or capture at any time within said
counties the red-breasted robin, red-bird, cat-bird, brown thrush,
mocking-bird or the barn or chimney swallow; and it shal! also be un-
lawful to kill or capture the wild turkey, pheasant (or ruffled grouse),
the partridge (or quail), snipe or woodcock, at any time in the counties
of Augusta, Alleghany, Bath and Rockbridge, except between the first
day of October and thirty-first day of December in each year, except
in the counties of Augusta and Rockbridge, where the time for hunt-
ing quail shall be between the fifteenth day of October and the fif-
teenth day of December; and any person violating this section shall
be fined not less than ten dollars for each offence, one-half of which
shall go to the informer, and the party convicted shall be confined
in jail until the fine and costs are paid, but such confinement
shall not exceed ten days in each case. All fines recovered un-
der either of the preceding sections shall be paid into the county
school fund of said counties, respectively, and be accounted for by
the treasurer thereof as other county school funds are accounted for,
except as to the one-half paid to the informer in the cases named ;
provided this act, so far as it relates to the partridge (or quail)
shall not go into effect for two years from its passage.

§ 4. Proceedings under this act may be by warrant before a justice
of the peace or by indictment in the county court.

§ 5 All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

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