Chap. 157.—An ACT for the better protection of Game in Henry
County.

Approved February 18, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall not be lawful, in Henry county, for any person to kill
or capture, or offer for sale, or buy any partridges or quail, be-
tween the first day of February and-the twenty-fifth day of Oc-
tober of each year. Nor shall it be lawful at any time to take
and destroy the eggs of the same.

2. This act shall be given in charge to the grand jury at
every term of the court at which a regular grand jury is em-
pannelled. And every violation of this act shall be deemed a
misdemeanor, and the party convicted fined not less than ten
nor more than twenty dollars.

3. The board of supervisors of Henry county, at their an-
nual July meeting, shall award a premium of two dollars for
each scalp of wild cat, catamount or red fox; one dollar for
each scalp of gray fox, mink or weasel; and seventy-five cents
for each scalp of chicken hawk or owl, except screech owl,
upon satisfactory evidence that the same were killed within the
limits of said county, and by the person in whose behalf the
same may be presented; to be paid on warrant of said board
on the county treasurer.

4. The act entitled an act to amend an act, approved March
ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty, respecting wild game, ap-
proved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to the
county of Henry. ,

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.