Chap. 358.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 13, Chapter 101 of
the Code, (edition of 1860), in Relation to Fishing in the Potomac
River.

Approved March 26, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the thirteenth section of chapter one hundred and one of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 13. No person shall fish in the Potomac river or its tribu-
taries during the months of March, April and May with gill
nets or seines of any kind other than such nets or seines as
may be laid out from and hauled to and landed upon the shores
of the said river and its tributaries; nor shall any person with
gill nets or seines of any kind fish on said river or its tributa-
ries from the first day of June untilthe twentieth day of October;
and every person offending against either of the aforesaid pro-
visions shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit to the state all
the vessels, boats, seines, ropes and fixtures used in said fishing ;
and moreover, shall pay a sum of not less than fifty nor more
than five hundred dollars, one-half of which sum shall be to
the informer, and the other half to the state: provided, that
nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent bona fide
citizens of the counties bordering on the aforesaid waters fish-
ing the shores they own or occupy, as they have hitherto been in
the habit of doing.

2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and
be in force from and after the enactment of a similar law by
the state of Maryland.