Chap. 616.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 192 of the acts of 1893 and
1894, entitled an act forthe protection of game in the county of Roanoke, ap-
proved February 9, 1894, also chapter 847, acts of 1885-06, approved March 4,
_ or so much thereof as refers to the killing of deer in the county of Roa-
noke.

Approved March 1, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
one hundred and ninety-two. acts of eighteen hundred and ninetv-three
and eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled an act for the protection
of game in the county of Roanoke, approved February the ninth, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-four, also chapter eight hundred and forty-
seven, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, approved March the fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
or so much thereof as refers to killing of deer in the county of Roanoke,
be crasiited and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

S$ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be “unlaw ful for any person to kill or capture deer, or chase them with
dogs, with intent to kill the same, in the county of Roanoke, between
the first dav of January and the fifteenth day of August, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, and each succeeding year thereafter.

S$ 2. Any person violating any provision of this act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a justice of
the peace or court, on an information, may be fined twenty dollars; but
no caplas pro fine ‘shall be issued on any judgment or verdict until and
after the expiration of thirty days in any prosecution of a person for the
violation of the preceding section; proof of the possession by such per-
son of any such deer shall be prima facie evidence of guilt. In any
case arising under the provisions of this act, any number of persons,
jointly engaged in any violation of any of the provisions of this act,
may and shall be tried jointly, and be construed as one case.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

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