Chap. 243.—An ACT to prohibit fishing within 500 yards of the mill dam
across Clinch river, at Speer’s Ferry, Scott county, Virginia, and to cause
the supervisors of said county to have fish ladders put on said dam, as
directed by an act approved March 13, 1912. (S. B. 226.)

Approved March 24, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be unlawful for any person to catch or destroy any fish of
any kind, large or small, or by any manner, means or way to take
from the Clinch river in Scott county, Virginia, within five hun-
dred yards of the mill dam across said river at Speer’s Ferry, Vir-
ginia, any fish of any kind, large or small. And any person who
shall drive, scare, hold back or cause to be caught in any way, any
fish large or small of any kind whatsoever, from the said Clinch
river in Scott county, Virginia, within five hundred yards of the
mill dam across the said river at the said ferry, shall be fined not
less than twenty dollars for each offense and confined in jail for
not less than ten days. And the supervisors of the said county shall
proceed at once to have the fish ladders put on the said dam at
Speer’s Ferry, according to an act approved March thirteenth, nine-
teen hundred and twelve, section two hundred and forty-four. And
it is further provided that if they do not proceed at once to comply
with the said act, and do nct at all times comply with the said act,
as to keeping ladders for fish to pass over the said dam, any citizen
of the said county may proceed against the said supervisors for
malfeasance of office.