CHAP. 161. —An ACT toamend and re-enact an act approved De-
cember 19, 1891, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter
129, extra session of 1887, for the protection of terrapins.

Approved February 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That an act approved December nineteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-one, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
chapter one hundred and twenty-nine, extra session eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven, for the protection of terra-
pins, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

If any person, after the first day of May and before the
fifteenth day of August of any year, shall take terrapins
or take or disturb terrapin eggs in the waters of. the coun-
ties of Accomac, Northampton, Northumberland, West-
moreland, Lancaster, Richmond, Essex and Isle of Wight,
or shall have terrapins in his possession, or shall buy or
offer them for sale in said counties, he shall forfeit two
hundred dollars and be confined in the county jail not ex-
ceeding thirty days. And if any person, after the first
day of May and before the fifteenth day of August of any
year, shall take terrapins with a seine net or weir in the
counties aforesaid, he shall forfeit his boats, seines and
nets, and pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and
be confined in the county jail not less than thirty days;
but this act shall not be construed as preventing any person who
has taken or purchased terrapins at any time, other than between
the firat day of May and the fifteenth day of August in any
year, from keeping the same in terrapin pounds or ponds during
said period. |
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.