Chap. 58.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. [fH B 31]

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-one hundred and seventy-three of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved March nineteenth, nineteen hundred
and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3173. Restriction on the right to set certain nets; certain
obstructions in Chesapeake bay forbidden.—It shall be unlawful to
set or fish any pound net within the York river, above a line drawn
from Clay bank in the ccunty of Gloucester to a point directly op-
posite on the other side of the river, Poquosin river, Back river,
Chickahominy river, Elizabeth river or Nansemond river, or any of
the tributaries thereof, or in the James river above a straight line
drawn from Mulberry point, in Warwick county, to the mouth of
Lawnes creek, the boundry between Surry and Isle of Wight counties,
or to set pound nets within one mile from either side of the mouth of
the Lynnhaven river, or between the hours of sunset and sunrise,
during any night, to set or fish any gill net or crab line in any waters
of Lynnhaven river above bottoms leased or rented to another person
or persons for the purpose of planting oysters ; and any and all pound
net stakes driven in the rivers or their tributaries allowed by law
shall be withdrawn by the owner when no longer in actual use for
ishing purposes. !

No person shall plant oysters or place stakes or other obstructions
in the Chesapeake bay within half mile of the shore, between Cape
Henry and the Norfolk county line where a seine is licensed to be laid
put, set or hauled, without the consent of the riparian owner. Nor
shall any person operate any device for staking claims within three-
quarters of a mile of the shore lying between Lynnhaven inlet and
Willoughby spit pier in Norfolk county.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage. :