Chap. 639.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 4, 1892,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved December 19, 1891
entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 129, extra session, 1887, for
the protection of terrapin.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved December nine-
teenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled an act to amend
and re-enact chapter one hundred and twenty-nine, extra session,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for the protection of terrapin,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. If any person, after the first day of May and before the fif.
teenth day of August, of any year, shall take terrapin or take or dis-
turb terrapin eggs in the waters of the counties of Accomac, North-
ampton, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Nansemond, Lancaster,
Richmond, Essex and Isle of Wight, or shall have terrapin in hie
possession, or shall buy or offer them for sale in said counties he
shall forfeit two hundred dollars and be confined in the county jail
not exceeding thirty days; and if any person shall at any time take
terrapin with a seine, net or weir in the counties aforesaid, he shall
forfeit his boats, seines and nets, and pay a fine of two hundred dol-
lars and be confined in the county jail not less than thirty days;
but this act shall not be construed as preventing any person who has
taken or purchased terrapin at any time other than between the first
day of May and the fifteenth day of August, in any year, from keep-
ing the same in terrapin pounds or ponds during said period.

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