Chap. 283.—An ACT to prevent the extermination of game in the counties of
Orange, Culpeper, Louisa, Spotsylvania, King George and Stafford, and the
protection of the same.

Approved February 11, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it
shall be unlawful for any person to shoot at, kill, or capture any
pheasants (or ruffled grouse), or deer in the counties of Orange,
Culpeper, Louisa, Spotsylvania, King George and Stafford from
January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, until the fifteenth
day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, or to offer for
sale or to have in possession, or to ship or transport for sale or other-
wise any pheasants (or ruffled grouse), or deer so unlawfully killed
or captured in said counties within the aforesaid period; to break
up, injure or interfere with any nest of any partridges (or quail),
pheasants (or ruffled grouse), or run or hunt with dogs, or otherwise
kill or capture any young deer (or fawn) within the aforesaid period.

2. Any person violating this act shall be arrested and tried before
a magistrate, and if found guilty shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and fined ten dollars and cost of prosecution for each
offence, and imprisoned in the county jail until the fine be paid, but
not exeeeding thirty days.

3. In any prosecution for a violation of this act proof of the pog-
session of any such partridge (or quail), pheasant (or ruffled grouse),
or deer, either for the purpose of sale or consumption, shall be prima
facie evidence of his guilt.

4. The operation of section twenty hundred and seventy-nine of
the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and acts amendatory
thereto of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
shall read as follows: It shall be unlawful to kill or capture or offer
for sale or buy any partridges (or quail), pheasants (or ruffled
grouse), or wild turkeys, or deer in the counties of Orange, Culpeper,
Louisa, Spotsylvania, King George and Stafford between the first day
of January and the fifteenth day of October of any year, or at any
time to take or destroy the eggs of partridges (or quail), pheasants
(or ruffled grouse), or wild turkeys, or capture them with net or
traps.

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