Chap. 264.—An ACT for the protection of game in the counties of Richmond,
Lancaster, and Northumberland.

Approved February 5, 1896.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
two hundred and seventy-six, acts eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine and ninety, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, entitled an act for the protection of game in the coun-
ties of Richmond and Lancaster, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful to kill any deer, or chase any deer with dogs with in-
tent to kill the same, in the counties of Richmond, Lancaster, or
Northumberland between the first day of February and the first day
of October of each year.

2. Any person violating this act shall be punished as provided in
section two thousand and eighty of the code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven.

3. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

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