Chap. 475.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 1 of section 3292 of the
Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924, in relation
to crabs. [S B 96]

Approved March 26, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That subsec-
tion one of section thirty-two hundred and ninety-two of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

(1) For each person working in any boat in taking or catching
soft crabs with scrapes, or hard crabs with nets or ordinary trot lines,
or soft crabs with ordinary trot lines or with nets other than dip nets,
two dollars, and an inspector’s fee of fifty cents, and on patent trot
lines, ten dollars and an inspector’s fee of fifty cents: provided no
steam or motor boat shall be used in the taking or catching of soft
crabs; provided, further, that it shall be unlawful for any person to
use ordinary trot lines or patent trot lines for the taking or catching
of hard crabs on planted grounds of private individuals without their
consent, in the waters of Worniley’s creek, which flows into the York
river.