Chap. 100.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section twelve, chapter
ninety-nine, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the
Protection of Wild Fowl in the Counties bordering on the Potomac
and Rappahannock.

Approved February 26, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twelve, chapter ninety-nine of Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 12. If any person shall, at any time, either in the night
or day-time, shoot at wild fowl in any county bordering on
the Potomac, or Rappahannock river, from Fredericksburg
to its mouth, or on the waters of the same, with any gun
which cannot be conveniently discharged from the shoulder
at arm’s length without a rest, or have such gun in his pos-
session on a boat, a justice of any such county shall require
such gun to be surrendered, and shall order it to be destroy-
ed, and shall fine the offender ten dollar, to be paid the in-
former. If the offender fail to surrender the same, he shall
be committed to jail, to remain until discharged by the court
of such county; and to carry out the-provisions of this act
apy citizen may arrest any offender under the same and
carry him before a justice.