CHAPTER 174

An Act to amend and reenact § 2 of Chapter 121 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1954, approved March 8, 1954, relating to collection and disposi-
tion of certain license fees in certain counties. LH 892]

Approved February 28, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 2 of Chapter 121 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, approved
March 3, 1954, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 2. The money received from the sale of such special stamp shall
be paid to the county treasurer to the credit of a special fund, and the
net amount thereof, or so much as is necessary, shall be used (a) for the
payment of damages to crops or livestock by deer or bear in the county
whenever such damage amounts to ten dollars or more, and (b) for pay-
ment of a bounty of not exceeding two dollars for each scalp of a red or
a grey fox upon production of satisfactory evidence that the same was
killed within the limits of the county by the person seeking such payment.
Payment of such bounty may be in lieu of, or in addition to, any other
bounty provided by law. Such payments shall be limited to the net amount
accruing in the special fund from the sales of such stamps in the county
during the license year in which the damage occurred and any surplus
remaining at the end of such year shall * be transferred to the general
fund of the county *. Any person suffering such damage shall report the
same to the game warden of the county, whose duty it shall be to in-
vestigate the same at once. The claim for damages shall be filed in dupli-
cate under oath on forms furnished by the clerk of the county. If the
claimant and game warden agree as to the amount of damage the game
warden shall approve the claim and forward it to the treasurer. If no
such agreement is reached between them the claim shall be submitted to
the arbitration of three persons in the customary manner and the award
of the arbitrators shall be final and binding, provided, however, that no
such claim for damages shall be paid to any person who shall close his
land to the general public by posting the same.