Chap. 178.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
hibit the taking or removing of fish, except such as are excepted, from
the water courses of the county of Augusta, approved March 13, 1912.

(H. B. 432.)
Approved March 21, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to prohibit the taking or removing of fish.
except such as are excepted, from the water courses of the county of
Augusta, approved March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve.
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be unlawful for any person to take or remove any fish from
the water courses of Augusta county by means of any trap, wire
net, seine, dull, spear, trot line. or by means of dynamite or line,
or by any other means, except by hook and line, in the fully ac-
cepted sense of angling, with the exception of carp, which may be
taken and removed from said water courses by dulling, spearing
or gigging, as well as by hook and line.

Sec. 2. Minnows, mad-toms, chubs and other non-game species,
which are commonly used for bait, shall be excepted from the pro-
visions of this act.

Sec. 3. That any person so violating this statute shall be sub-
ject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, or more than fifty
dollars, or to be imprisoned not less than ten or more than thirty
days, or both.

Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of any citizen who may see,
or have personal knowledge of any violation of this act, to report
the same immediately to the proper authorities.

Sec. 5. That any person who shall fail to report a known viola-
tion of this statute shall be deemed an accessory, and may be sub-
jected to the same fine, or imprisonment, or both.

Sec. 6. That any person reporting a violation of this act, and
by his testimony securing the arrest and conviction of the accused,
shall receive one-half of the fine collected as a result of the fine
and conviction.

Sec. 7. That section twenty-one hundred and five of the Code
of Virginia, providing for suitable fish ladders in the streams of
Virginia, be incorporated in this act.

Sec. 8. That all previous acts affecting the protection of fish
in the county of Augusta be, and the same are, hereby repealed, with
the exception of section twenty-one hundred and five of the Code
of Virginia.