Chap. 293.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 38]

Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and seventy-three of the Code of Virginia 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 county of Gloucester to a point directly oppo-
site on the other side of the river, Poguosin river, Back river, Chicka-
hominy river, Elizabeth river or Nansemond river, or any of the tribu-
taries thereof, or in the James river above a straight line drawn from
Blunt Point, in Warwick county, to the mouth of Smithfield creek,
in Isle of Wight county, 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tributaries allowed by law shall be withdrawn by the owner when no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 fishing purposes.

No person shall plant oysters or place stakes or other obstruc-
tions in Chesapeake bay within half mile of the shore, between Cape
Henry and the Norfolk county line where a seine is licensed to be
laid out, 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.

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