Chap. 331.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act for the pro-
tection of game in Frederick county,” approved February 23d, 1894.

Approved February 14, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled ‘an act for the protection of game in Frederick county,”
approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to kill or capture any
deer between December fifteenth and the fifteenth day of September
of each year, or to chase or run deer with dogs of any kind at any
time.

§ 2. Or to kill or capture, or offer for sale, or to buy any partridges
(or quail) between the fifteenth day of December and the first day
of November of each year, or any pheasants (or ruffled grouse), or
wild turkeys between the first day of January and the first day of
November of each year, or any woodcock between the first day of
February and the first day of July of each year, or any Japanese,
Mongolian, or ring-necked pheasant before the first day of Novem-
ber, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

§ 3. Or at any time to kill or capture any of the species of game or
game birds herein above enumerated by trapping or netting, or at
any time to take the eggs of any of said game birds, or to intention-
ally destroy the eggs or nests of the same.

§ 4. Any person violating the provisions of section one of this
act in relation to deer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor
more than sixty dollars, and may, in the discretion of the court or
jury, be confined in the county jail not less than thirty nor more
than fifty days,and any person violating the provisions of any other
section of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined
not less than ten dollars for the first offence, and for each subse-
quent offence the fine shall be doubled. In any prosecution of a
person for the violation of any of the preceding sections proof of the
possession by any such party of any such game or game birds during
the prohibited time shall be prima facie evidence of his guilt.

§ 5. It shall be unlawful at any time for any person to carry, send,
transport, or ship, dead or alive, game or game birds of any kind to
any point outside the county in which the same is killed, and any
one violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than
ten dollars for the first offence and for each subsequent offence the fine
shall be doubled; provided that for any stage line, railroad, or ex-
press company receiving such game or game birds for shipment or
transportation the fine shall be fifty dollars. Upon a conviction
under this section one-half the fine shall go totheinformer. Nothing
in this section shall be construed to apply to the shipment or trans-
portation of rabbits or hares.

§ 6. Any magistrate of the city or county wherein any offence un-
der this act is committed sball have concurrent jurisdiction with the
corporation or county court of all violations thereof.

§ 7. Nothing in this act shall be coustrued to interfere with the
laws now in force in regard to the killing or capturing of birds and
animals not named or embraced in this act.

8. This act shall apply only to Frederick county.
9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

§ 10. This act shall in no way be construed as repealing as to
Frederick county an act entitled an act to prevent the extermination
of partridges (or quail) in the state of Virginia, approved January
twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

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