Chap. 93.—An ACT to prevent and punish Unlawful Hunting.
Passed February 20, 1865,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of chapter one hundred and one of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty be amended and re- enacted So as
to read as follows:

“$4. If any person shall hunt, shoot or range, with or
without dogs, on the lands of another, without the consent
of the owner or tenant of such Jands, or shoot along any
public road, or in the streets of any town or village, in any
of the counties of this commonwealth, or shall fish or fowl!
on the lands or in the water courses comprehended in the
survey of any proprietor, he shall be deemed guilty of a
trespass, and shall be fined for each offence five dollars—the
fine to be double in every instance if the offence be committed
in the night or on Sunday—tor the use of the owner or ten-
ant of the lands, and for the commonwealth when the offence
is committed in the public roads or in the streets of any town
or Villaxe; to be recovered by warrant before any justice of
the peace, ‘towether with all costs and charges attending the
collection of the same: and shall moreover forfeit, as afore-
said, his gun and shooting apparatus; and his dog or dogs
shall be killed, if the justice shall, in his discretion, so order.
And when any person shall be convicted a third time of said
offence, the justice rendering Judgment. therefor shall require
him to enter into a recognizance, with sufficient security, for
his good behavior for twelve months; or, if he fail to give
such security, commit him to jail for one : month. unless it be
sconer given. Such recognizance to be forteited, if such
person offend, as atoresaid, within the time Iinited in the
recognizance.’

2.” Section second of chapter one hundred and one is here-
by repealed in all the counties in which the county courts
adopt the first section of this act.

3. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any county,
unless the court thereof, all the justices thereof having been
summoned for that purpose, and a majority being present,
shall adopt the same; and unless so adopted, the provisions
of sections second and tour of chapter one hundred and one
of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty shall remain in
full force in such county.

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