Chap. 355.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 of section 2086 of the
Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18,
1890, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Vir-
ginia; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled
an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March 1, 1900, entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia; and as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved May 5, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section
2086 of the Code of Virginia; in relation to fishing in the waters of the Common-
wealth; to provide for levying a license tax of fishing devices and for the
collection thereof, and to extend the provisions of said act to all the waters
within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth.

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virgnia, That sub-section
one of section two thousand and eighty-six of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved February eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact
section two thousand and eighty-six, of the Code of Virginia; as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March third, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section two
thousand and eighty-six, of the Code of Virginia; as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved March first, nineteen hundred, entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section two thousand and eighty-six, of the
Code of Virginia ; and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May
fifth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section two thousand and eighty-six, of the Code of Virginia; in relation
to fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth; to provide for levying
a license tax on fishing devices and for the collection thereof, and to
extend the provisions of said act to all the waters within the jurisdiction
of the Commonwealth; be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§2086. License of residents to fish with purse nets, pound nets, and so
fourth, or for crabs; their oath; license tax required; amount to be
paid; how obtained; how tax collected; the object thereof; to be ac-
counted for.

First. Any resident of this State desiring to fish with a purse net, pound
net, fyke net, with open bays or funnel mouth gill nets used for shad and
herring fishing for market or profit, wier or other fixed device, and haul
seines, hauled in other manner than by hand, in any of the waters of
this Commonwealth, or waters within the jurisdiction of this Common-
wealth, shall apply to the oyster inspector of the district or sub-division
of the district within which the person so applying resides, except that
the applicant for license to fish with a fixed device, shall apply to the
oyster inspector of the district in which the fixed device is proposed to be
located, and state on oath the true name or names of the person or persons
applying for license, that they are and have been for twelve months next
preceding, residents of this State, the place at which the net, seine, fyke.
wier, or other fixed device is to be fished, and that during the period
of the license thev will not violate any of the laws of this State in
relation to the taking and catching of fish: provided, this act shal] not
apply to hand lines nor to gill nets other than those aforesaid: and pro-
vided further, that any person, firm or corporation entitled by law to
fish in anv of the waters of this Commonwealth or waters within the
jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, desiring to take and catch fish therein
with purse nets for the purpose of manufacturing the same into oil,
fish scrap or manure, shall first obtain a license therefor according to the
provisions of, and under the penalties prescribed by, section two thousand
and ninety-nine of the Code of Virginia. Such oyster inspector ‘shall
thereupon grant a license to use such net, fyke, wier, or other fixed device.
or haul seine hauled in any other manner than by hand and state in such
license the name or names of the person or persons who shall use the
same, the place at which it is to be located or used, the season for
which said license is granted, which season shall begin on the first day
of February in any year, and end on the thirty-first dav of January
of the year following, and the amount of tax as is hereinafter provided :
provided, however, that it shall be lawful for a resident of this State
except such persons, firms and corporations as may he engaged in the
taking and catching of fish for the purpose of manufacturing the same
into oil, fish scrap or manure to employ any vessel or net owned within
or without this State for the purpose of taking and catching fish: pro-
vided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to permit fishing
in portions of York river prohibited by law, and in seasons prohibited
by law in said river, and in season prohibited by Jaw in other sections
of this State: and provided, also, that nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to permit fishing in James river, Nansemond river, Elizabeth
river, Chickahominy river, or within one mile of the mouth of either.
or in the tributaries of either, or within one mile of the mouth of Lynn-
haven river in any manner or with any net now prohibited by law: and
provided further, that no person shall plant oysters or place stakes or
other obstructions in Chesapeake Bay from Cape Henry to the Norfolk
county line, where a seine is licensed to be laid out, set or hauled so as
to interrupt or hinder any person in this State in the exercise of his
rights of fishing. For granting such license the oyster inspector shall]
receive a fee of fifty cents for each net licensed, except where the license
tax is less than three dollars the inspector shall receive a fee of twenty-
five cents for each license granted.