Chap. 237.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2070a of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1903, providing when and
how unlawful to hunt, etc., as amended and re-enacted as to sub-section 2
thereof by an act approved March 14, 1904.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two thousand and seventy a, of the Code of Vi irginia, as amended by
an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, providing
when and how unlawful to hunt, etcetera, as amended and re-enacted as
to subsection two thereof, by’an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen
hundred and four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2070a. When and how unlawful to hunt, etcetera, and power of
boards of supervisors.

First. It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot at, kill, or capture
any wild water fowl] or wild turkey at any time during the night in this
State, or at any time to capture them in traps or nets or other contriv-
ances, or to use reflectors or other lights, or sneak boats or artificial islands
in detecting or capturing or shooting of wild fowl or game of any kind,
or to hunt or shoot muskrats at night with a light in the tidewater
sections of the State, or to shoot at any game on land or water in this
State with a gun larger than an eight bore. Al] sneak boats, nets, traps.
or reflectors or other unlawful appliances so used or found in the posses-
sion of any person shall he seized by any game warden or other officer
and held by him as evidence, but the same shall not be destroved except
by the order of the court or justice having jurisdiction, upon warrants
duly issued, which said court or justice shall, upon satisfactory evidence
of the guilt of the party or of the unlawful nature of the article seized,
order the same to be destroyed. The possession of any of said guns, sneak
boats, nets, traps, reflectors, or other unlawful appliances shall be prima
a evidence of the guilt of the person in whose possession they are

ound.

Second. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill, or capture
in any manner, or buy, offer for sale, or have in possession any wild turk-
eys, pheasants, or grouse, quail, or partridges, or woodcock east of the
Blue Ridge mountains between February the first and November the
first, and west of the Blue Ridge mountains between December the thirty-
first and November the first, or to track or hunt any of them in snow,
except wild turkeys, or to trap or net them at any time, or to destroy their
nests, eggs. or young at any time, or to kill, chase, or capture, or buy,
offer for sale, or have in vossession, any wild deer between January the
first and October the first, or to track or hunt them in snow, or to kill
or capture, or buy, offer for sale, or have in possession, any winter wild
water fowl between April the first and October the fifteenth, or summer
or wood ducks between January the first and August the first, or any
rails, mud hens, gallinules, plovers, except black breast plover, green head
plover, and white plover, snipe, except Wilson or English snipe or robin
snipe, sand pipers, willets, or tattlers, between January the first and July
the twentieth, or robins between March the first and December fifteenth.

The possession of any of said game birds or game animals, or parts
thereof, protected by the laws of this State, during the season in which it
is unlawful to hunt. kill, chase, or capture the same, shall be prima facie
evidence of the guilt of the party in whose possession they are found.

Third. It shall be unlawful to shoot or otherwise hunt any wild fowl
or any game birds, or game animals, protected by the laws of this State.
later than an half an hour after sunset or earlier than an half an hour
before sunrise, or to shoot or hunt anv game in this State on Sunday.
Fourth. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not
less than five or more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in jail for not more
than thirty days, or both fined and imprisoned, at the discretion of the
justice or jury trying the case.

Fifth. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this section are hereby
repealed, but the board of supervisors of any county shall have the power
to shorten the open season in their said county, and may vermit the ship-
ment of wild water fowl from said county or out of the State, and by
regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this section, may
further protect the game within their said county, and may include in
such protection other game not specifically mentioned in this section.

Sixth. Nothing in this section shall be construed to refer to the bird
known as sora.