Chap. 325.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to

prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of the

ames and Chickahominy rivers below tide-water, approved May
16, 1887.

Approved March 1, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of
pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chick-
ahominy rivers below tide-water, approved on the sixteenth
day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be unlawful for any person to fish with, use, or set
any pound net or purse net in any of the waters of James
and Chickahominy rivers: provided that this act shall not
apply to the waters of James river, between the dry dock in
the town of Newport News and Warwick creek, in Warwick
county, for a distance of four hundred yards from low-water
mark, along the Warwick county line out into the waters of
James river.

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