Chap. 287.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2105 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to fish ladders, as amended by an act, approved March

5, 1900 [H B 199]
Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That. sec-
{ion twenty-one hundred and five of the Code of Virginia, as amend-
ed and re-enacted by an act, approved the fifth day of March, nine-
teen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sections 2105. Dams and so forth; to be provided with “Mc-
Donald Fishway.”—Any person or corporation owning or having
control of any dam or other obstruction in any of the rivers of this
State above tidewater, which may interfere with the free passage of
fish, shall provide every such dam or other obstruction with a suit-
able fish-ladder, so that fish may have free passage up and down said
rivers during the months of March, Aprif May and June of each
year, and maintain and keep the same in good repair, and restore
it in case of destruction; provided, however, that this section shall
not apply to the Meherrin river within the counties of Brunswick
and Greensville.

2. This act shall not be construed as requiring fish-ladders to be
placed on any dam now exempt by law.