Chap. 246.—An ACT for the protection of fish in Bland, Tazewell and Smyth
counties.

Approved February 12, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person knowingly to kill or injure any fish by
the use of dynamite or any other explosive or poison thrown or
placed in any of the waters of Bland, Tazewell and Smyth coun-
ties.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase, eat or have in
his possession any fish so injured or killed in any of said waters.

3. It shall be unlawful for any person to so locate their steam saw-
mills in the counties of Bland, Tazewell and Smyth that the saw-
dust therefrom shall fall into and pollute the streams.

4, It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch fish by means
of trap, dip-net or seine, harpoon, grab-hook or any other device, except
hook and line, in any of said waters, except that it shall be lawful
to catch minnows for bait by means of a hand-net; and for four
years after the United States fish commission shall have placed in
the south fork of Holston river or its tributaries California trout or
other fish for the stocking of said streams, it shall be unlawful to
take from said atreams or destroy in any way any of such fish or
their increase within the limits of Smyth county.

5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of section
one of this act shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars and confined in the
county jail not lessthanten nor more than thirty days; and any one
violating any of the provisions of sections two, three or four shal],
on conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor
more than fifty dollars.

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