Chap. 10.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for
the payment of bounties for the killing of certain predatory birds and
animals, approved March 10, 1920. [S B 66]

Approved February 11, 1922.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for the payment of bounties for the killing
of certain pradatory birds and animals, approved March tenth, nine-
teen hundred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Sec. 1. The bounties hereinafter specified shall be paid for the
killing of the predatory birds and animals hereinafter named, that
is to say: Sharp-skinned hawk, fifty cents; gos hawk, fifty cents;
Cooper’s hawk, fifty cents; crow, fifteen cents; great horned owl,
fifty cents; and weasels, one dollar. No bounty for the killing of
crows, however, shall be paid except on those killed in the months
of April, May, June, July, August or September.

Sec. 2. The said bounties shall be paid in the following manner:
One-half by the commissioner of game and inland fisheries on war-
rants drawn on the game protection fund, and one-half by the board
of supervisors of the county in which the predatory bird or animal
is killed, out of the dog license fund existing under the provisions
of chapter four hundred and thirteen of the Acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty. All payments for bounties as herein provided shall be
paid in full by the board of supervisors and the commissioner of
game and inland fisheries shall, upon receipt of certificate from the
board of supervisors that such bounties have been paid, remit, as
herein provided, one-half of the amount so paid to the board of
supervisors paying same.

Sec. 3. In order to entitle any person to the bounties herein
provided, the applicant shall produce before the county clerk the
head of the bird or animal killed, and make afhdavit before the clerk
that same was killed within said county, and no fee shall be charged
by the clerk for taking such affidavit.