Chap. 131.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the Code of
Virginia, in relation to fish ladders in Meherrin river and the streams with-
in the counties of Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Louisa, Buckingham, Halifax
Pulaski, Montgomery and Grayson and those streams forming the boun
daries of Halifax county. {[H B 90]

Approved March 7, 1922,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
thirty-one hundred and ninety-two of the Code of Virginia be amendec
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 3192. Dams, et cetera; to be provided with suitable
hshway.—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 suitable fish
ladder so that fish may have free passage up and down said rivers
during the months of March, April, 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 county of Brunswick and
Greensville, nor to the Meherrin river within or between the counties
of Lunenburg and Mecklenburg, nor to any streams within the coun-
ties of Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Louisa, Buckingham, Halifax, Mont-
gomery, Grayson and Pulaski, nor to that part of any stream that
forms a part of the boundary of Halifax county.