Chap. 454.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating
the fishing of purse nets and pound nets in the tributaries of the Potomac
river within the jurisdiction of the counties of Stafford, King George, West-
moreland, and Northumberland, and in the Rappahannock river, approved
March 3, 1892.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act regulating the fishing of purse nets and pound
nets in the tributaries of the Potomac river within the jurisdiction
of the counties of Stafford, Westmoreland, King George, and North-
umberland, and in the Rappahannock river, approved March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows: That it shall be lawful for any resident of thie
state to fish with a purse net or pound net at any season of the year
in the Rappahannock river and in any tributaries of the Potomac
river within the jurisdiction of the counties of Stafford, King
George, Westmoreland, and Northumberland, between the first day
of September and the first day of June in ‘any year; subject, how-
ever, to the license laws of the commonwealth.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

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