Chap. 97.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the payment of bounties for the
killing of certain predatory animals and birds, approved March 10, 1920, as
amended and approved February 11, 1922. {[S B 36]

Approved March 5, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to provide for the payment of bounties for the
killing of certain predatory animals and birds, approved March
tenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, as amended and approved
February eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be further
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The bounties herein specified shall be paid for the
killing of the predatory birds and animals named, as follows:
Sharp-shinned hawk, goshawk, Cooper’s hawk and great horned
owl, fifty cents each; crows, fifteen cents each and weasels one
dollar each. No bounty for the killing of crows shall be paid
except on those killed in the months of April, May, June, July,
August and September. .

Section 2. The said bounties shall be paid by the board of
supervisors out of the eighty-five per centum dog license fund of
the county in which the predatory bird or animal is killed. Upon
receipt of certificate stating the species, the number each thereof
and the amount paid for such bounties, from the clerk of the board
of supervisors, the commission of game and inland fisheries shall
remit one-half of same to the treasurer of said county who shall
credit the amount to the dog license fund. There is hereby appro-
priated out of the moneys to the credit of the game protection
fund, not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum to meet such
claims. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall certify to the
commission the amount paid out at the end of each calendar month.

Section 3. In order to entitle any person to the bounties herein
provided the applicant shall produce the head of the bird or animal
killed before the county clerk naming the species and making
affidavit that same was killed within said county and, if crow
heads, the month in which killed and no charge shall be made by
the clerk for taking such affidavit.

Section 4. If in his judgment the species named in the affidavit
has been correctly identified and is one named herein on which
bounties shall be paid, the clerk shall issue an order on the treas-
urer in favor of the claimant for the required ‘amount, specifying
the species for which allowed and the number of each thereof, and
said treasurer shall pay the same upon presentation. The clerk
shall use a printed form for the purpose, which form shall be pre-
served by the treasurer until the end of each calendar month
when it shall be returned by him to the clerk of the board of super-
visors, accompanied by a statement of the aggregate amount. The
board of supervisors will thereupon issue a warrant for such
amount against the dog license fund in favor of said treasurer.