CHAP. 165.—An ACT for the protection of fish in the waters of Back bay and its
tributaries.

Approved April 22, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons to catch fish in the waters of Back
bay or its tributaries, at any time with a drag net, or haul seine with
meshes less than one and three-cighths of an inch square. All persons vic
lating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or
be imprisoned in jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both, and,
moreover, all nets, seines, and boats, or other devices used in the commis
sion of such offense, shall be sold by order of the circuit court, and the
proceeds thereof forfeited to the Commonwealth.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-

ealed.

’ 3. This act shall be in force on and after the twenty-fifth day of Octo
ber, nineteen hundred and three.