Chap. 98.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first Section of an Act
entitled an Act to Regulate the Taking of Fish for the purpose of
Manufacturing Oil or Manure, approved March 23d, 1871.

Approved February 25, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of an act entitled an act to regulate the taking
of fish for the purpose of manufacturing oil or manure, ap-
proved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
hereafter it shall not be lawful for non-residents to take or
catch fish in any of the waters-of this commonwealth for the
purpose of grinding, pressing or manufacturing oil or manure
from the same; nor shall any non-resident grind up or press
any fish taken or caught in the waters of this state, or manu-
facture the same into oil or manure; nor shall any non-resi-
dent build or erect within the limits of this state any machi-
nery or apparatus of any kind for the purpose of manufactur-
ing oils or manures from fish: provided, however, that this act x
shall not apply to non-residents who are the bona fide owners ¢
of land within this state, and who occupy and cultivate said 4
dand by their agents, tenants or laborers; but such non-resi- p
dents are hereby allowed, on the same terms as citizens of this
state, to take or catch fish in any of the waters thereof for the
purpose of making compost, grinding up, pressing or manu-
facturing oils or manures, so that the said composts, oils or
manures be applied and used by said owners, their agents,
tenants or laborers, solely for improving and manuring their
gaid lands.

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