Chap. 221.—An ACT to amend section one, chapter ninety-nine, Code
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the Protection of Deer.

Approved March 29, 1876,

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

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That no person shall kill any deer, or run any deer, with
dogs, with the intention of destroying the same, from the
first day of January until the fifteenth day of July next fol-
lowing in each year. Any one violating this law shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and
conviction thereof, shall be fined, at the discretion of a jury,
not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for
each offence, which said fines shall be collected as other fines
are now provided for by law; and when so collected shall be
paid over to the county treasurer wherein such actions may
arise, and by said treasurer applied to county levy. Any
person found with any recently killed venison, or fresh deer
skins in his possessiom during the time in which the killing
of deer is prohibited by this act, shall be deemed for the
purposes of this act, to have killed said deer: provided, this
section shall not apply to deer killed in any park.

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

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