Chap. 173.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, Chapter 100,
Code of 1873, in Relation to Hauling Seines in the Waters of Acco-
mac and Northampton Counties.

Approved April 9, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section Code:
first, chapter one hundred of the Code of Virginia, eighteen ¢.1%
hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted 80 as ing se
to read as follows: omens

Ҥ 1. If any person shall, in any year, after the first day Haut
of June and before the first day of September, haul a seine $04!
below the mouth of any river in this state, or in the waters and Pi
of the counties of Northampton and Accomac, or set a weir”
or seine, or haul a seine in the waters of the said counties
after the first day of June and before the first day of Sep-
tember, he shall forfeit fifty dollars; but this section shall Not a)
not apply to a person hauling a seine in the jurisdiction of 62%
Elizabeth City county, between Old Point Comfort and Back tween
river, at any time from the fifteenth day of June in any year; and B
nor to the citizens of Northampton county hauling a seine Nort
for family use in the waters of the north fork of Old Plan- #mP%
tation creek in the jurisdiction of Northampton couaty, run-
ning from the south line of the land on which N. 8S. Goffigon,
at present resides, to its source, during the months of June,
Jaly and Angust. The citizens in the county of Northamp- Time
ton county shall be and they are hereby authorized to haul wie
a seine or seines in the waters of said county during the tonm
months of June, July and August, for the purpose of catch. “¢™"
ing a fish known by the name of alewives; and if, perchance,
any a fish should be caught, they shall be thrown over-

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