Chap. 497.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the
protection of foxes in the counties of Madison, Orange, Tazewell and
Pittsylvania, approved March 4, 1924, and to bring the county of Campbell
under the provisions of the said act. [H B 324]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act for the protection of foxes in the counties of Henry,
Madison, Orange, Tazewell and Pittsylvania, approved March fourth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or capture, or
buy, sell or offer for sale, any red or gray fox in the counties of Madison,
Orange, Tazewell, Pittsylvania, Campbell, Culpeper and Rappa-
hannock, between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of
September in each year, except that foxes may be killed or trapped in
the protection of property, and when found destroying property.
Persons setting traps shall be required to visit their traps daily and
release any domestic fowl or animal that may be found caught therein.
Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less
than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.

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