Chap. 500.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to regulate
and protect the crabbing industry, and to prohibit non residents from catcb-
ing crabs in the waters of Virginia,” approved March 7, 1894, and to repeal
ao act entitled “An act to protect the crab industry of the commonwealth.
approved May 12, 1887.

Approved February 27, 1896,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions one and two of an act entitled “an act to regulate and protect
the crabbing industry, and to prohibit non-residents from catching
crabs in the waters of Virginia,” approved March seventh, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, 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 for any person to catch crabs with scrapes or
dredges on the planted grounds of private individuals, or the natural
oyster-rocks in the state of Virginia.

§ 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be
deemed guilty of a felony; and upon conviction thereof shall be
confined in the penitentiary not more than one year; or, in the dis-
cretion of the jury, may be confined not more than twelve months
in jail, or fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.

2. And be it further enacted, That an act entitled an act to protect
the crab industry of the commonwealth, approved May twelfth,
eighteon hundred and eighty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, re-
pealed.

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