Chap. 111.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3168 of the Code of Vir-
ginia in relation to license taxes for fishing in the waters of the Common-
wealth. [H B 65]

Approved March 6, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-one hundred and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3168. License tax for fishing; amount; by whom issued;
how register mark displayed.-—Every such resident who shall applv
for license to catch or take fish from the waters of the Commonwealth,
or the waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, in addi-
tion to the fee aforesaid, shall pay to the oyster inspector of such dis-
trict a specific license tax, which shall be in lieu of all taxes levied upon
such persons for taking and catching fish, or for selling the product
thereof as follows: On each sail vessel fishing with purse net of not
more than four hundred meshes deep, five dollars; on each sail vessel
hshing with purse net of more than four hundred meshes deep, twenty-
five dollars; on each steam vessel fishing with purse net, one hundred
dollars; on each power boat of not over twenty-horse power fishing
with purse net, ten dollars; on each power boat of over twenty-horse
power fishing with purse net, one hundred dollars; on each pound
net, three dollars; on each float or stake gill net of six hundred feet
in length and under, one dollar; and for every additional one hundred
feet or fraction thereof, twenty-five cents; on each thresh net, or skirt
net or similar device, one dollar; on each fyke net head, weir, or sim-
ilar fixed device, one dollar; on each haul seine, operated by motor
boat power not exceeding five-horse, or by hand, for market or profit,
three dollars; on each drift haul net attended by motor boat exceeding
fhve-horse power, twenty dollars; but no steamboat shall be allowed
to fish such net; on each haul seine hauled by windlass, with horse or
mule power, or other power than hand or steam, twenty dollars; on
each haul seine operated by steam power, fifty dollars; on each stur-
geon gill net or trammel net, three dollars; on each sturgeon sweep
net or haul seine, twenty-five dollars; for every person not a resident
of the State of Virginia, catching blue fish by hand line, two dollars,
and an inspector’s fee of fifty cents; provided, no net of any kind shall
be used for catching blue fish; and inspectors issuing said license shall
furnish to the persons to whom said licenses are issued a number or
register mark to be placed by the fishermen on their boats or fixed
fishing devices, and if the license be for a fixed fishing device the holder
of said license shall fasten the said register mark or number securely
to one of the off-shore stakes of the said fishing device, and if the li-
cense be for a haul seine, drift net, purse net or similar fishing device,
the holder of said license shall fasten said register mark or number
securely on the starboard prow of the boat used in fishing said device.
This act shall not apply to fishing on streams above tidewater.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.