Chap. 76.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to
Amend the fortieth Section of Chapter one hundred and one of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, to Prevent the Destruction of
Wild Fowl in this State, approved March thirteen, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two.

Approved February 11, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That an act entitled
an act to amend the fortieth section of chapter one hundred
and one of the Code of eighteen hundred sixty, to prevent the
destruction of wild fowl in this state, approved March thir-
teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. If any person, except from the land, shall shoot at or kill
wild fowl during the night, within this state, or if any person
shall from a skiff or float, or by the aid thereof, within the
jurisdiction of the counties of Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford,
or Henrico, whether in the night or day time, shoot or kill wild
fowl, he may be convicted thereof before a justice, and on con-
viction shall surrender his gun and any such skiff or float, and
the same shall be forfeited to the commonwealth. If he fail to
surrender them, he shall be committed to jail for thirty days,
unless the surrender be sooner made ; and if any person offend-
ing against this section be not an actual resident of this state,
he shall moreover forfeit two hundred dollars; and if any non-
resident of this state shall in like manner, from a skiff or float,
or by the aid thereof, in the broad waters of Back bay, within
the jurisdiction of the county of Princess Anne, or in any other
waters of this commonwealth, shoot or kill wild fowl, he may
be proceeded against by warrant, and be convicted before any
justice having jurisdiction, and upon such conviction, shall be
fined for every offence not less than ten nor more than fifty
dollars, to be recovered as other fines are recoverable by law,
to be collected and paid for the use and benefit of the literary
fund ; but this section shall not be applicable to non-residents
renting shores on the said broad waters of Back bay, or on any
other waters of this commonwealth.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.