Chap. 286.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 1 and 2 of section 2070¢
of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 95 of the Code of Vir-
ginia in relation to the preservation of certain useful birds and animals, and
prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal sections 2075, 2076, 2077, 2081, and
2082 of the Code of Virginia, and an act entitled an act to prevent the extermi-
nation of partridges (or quail) in the State of Virginia, approved January 27,
1896, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section: }
and 4 of an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or
quail) in the State of Virginia, approved January 27, 1896, in force since
December 15, 1897, approved May 14, 1903.

Approved May 20, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That subsections
one and two of section two thousand and seventy c of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact chapter ninet-five of the Code of Virginia
in relation to the preservation of certain useful birds and animals, and to
prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal sections two thousand and sev-
enty-five, two thousand and seventy-six, two thousand and seventy-seven,
two thousand and eighty-one, and two thousand and eighty-two of. the
Code of Virginia, and an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination
of partridges (or quail) in the State of Virginia, approved January the
twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended by an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections one and four of an act
entitled an act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or quail) in
the State of Virginia, approved January the twenty-seventh, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, in force since December the fifteenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-seven, approved May the fourteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2070c. Non-residents to obtain hunting licenses; when and how
game may be exported, et cetera.

$1. It shall be unlawful for any person not a resident of this State
to hunt or kill wild waterfowl, wild turkeys, pheasant, or grouse, wood-
cock, partridges, quail, or other game birds, or deer, within this State
until he shall have first secured a hunting license as hereinafter pro-
vided: provided, however, that the non-resident child of a resident owner
of land in this State shall be allowed to hunt on the lands of his parent
as though he were a resident of this State, and the non-resident guests of
a resident land owner shall be allowed to hunt on the lands of his host
as though he were a resident of this State when accompanied by said
host, or a member of his host’s family: provided, said host receives no
compensation, directly or indirectly, from said guest.

§ 2. Upon the personal application of any non-resident to the clerk of
the circuit court of any county in which he first begins to hunt, such
clerk shall, upon the payment of ten dollars, issue to such non-resident a
hunting license, using a form to be prescribed by the auditor of public
accounts for that purpose, entitling him to hunt and kill wild waterfowl,
deer, wild turkey, pheasant, or grouse, wood-cock, partridges, quail, and
other game birds during the open season in the six months next follow-
ing, and subject to any restrictions now existing or which may hereafter
be imposed upon residents of this State. The clerk shall retain fifty
cents as his fee for issuing such license, and the residue he shall account
for to the auditor of public accounts, unless otherwise provided by law.
Such license shall not be transferable.

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