Chap. 184.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulat
killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling, or offering for sale of part
ridges (or quail), wild turkeys, hares, robin redbreast, and all native
pheasants in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same
in traps, or the destruction of the eggs of the same in said county, approvec
January 25, 1898, and to apply the provisions of the same to the city o:
Charlottesville.

Approved January 26, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling
or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys, native pheasants
in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same in trap:
or the destruction of the eggs of same in said county, approved January
twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows.

S 1. It shall be unlawful to kill, capture, hunt, buy, sell, or offer fox
sale, in the county of Albemarle or in the city of Charlottesville, any
partridges (or quail) between the first day of January and the first dav
of November, any wild turkeys or native pheasants between the fifteenth
dav of January and the first day of November of each year; or any robin
redbreast, between the first day of April and the first day of November:
or any hares, between the first day of February and the first day of
November in each year; or at any time to take or capture any of the
said birds in traps or to take or destroy the eggs of same in said county
or city.

§ 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be held guiltv
of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars for each offense, the informer to receive one half of
the fine; or in the discretion of the justice of the peace, the offender
may be confined in the county jail not more than ten days for each
offense.

§ 3. Possession of any of the above game at the time when it is unlaw-
ful to kill, capture, hunt, buy, sell, or offer for sale the same, shall be
prima facie evidence of the violation of this act.

§ 4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.