Chap. 223.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate
the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and providing penalties
for the violation of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict
therewith, approved March 16, 1918. [H B 441}

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to regulate the taking of fish from the streams
in Scott county, and providing penalties for the violation of same
and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved
March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch, destroy, or take
fish of any kind or description from any stream in Scott county by
any method or means in any way, other than with hook and line,
except as hereinafter provided.

3. It shall be unlawful to use fish berries, lime, giant powder,
dynamite or other explosive or chemical substance of any kind for the
destruction, taking or catching of fish, in any creek, pond, or river
of Scott county, at any time.

y person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon
conviction, be fined not less than one hundred nor more than three
hundred dollars, or be confined in jail for a period of not less than
thirty nor more than ninety days, or both.

4. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch or take any fish
in any of the waters of Scott county by means of seines or dip nets
of any kind, between the first day of April and the first day of June,
and it shall be unlawful to fish with seines or dip nets of any kind
at any time exceeding twenty-five feet in length.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall,
upon conviction, be fined not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred dollars, or imprisoned in jail for a term of not less than ten
nor more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court or
magistrate trying the same.

5. Be it further enacted that one-half of any fine imposed and
collected for the violation of any section of this act shall be paid to
any person who gives information to any proper officer or investi-
gates a prosecution for the violation of any of the above sections, in
which there may be a conviction.

6. All acts or parts of acts relating to the taking, catching or
destruction of fish, in Scott county, in conflict with any of the pro-
visions of this act, are hereby repealed. 7