Chap. 17.—An ACT to protect Mongolian and English pheasants in Albemarle
and Loudoun counties.

Approved December 22, 1897.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful to kill or capture, sell or offer for sale, or buy any Mongolian
or English pheasants in the counties of Albemarle and Loudoun between
the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the first
day of March, nineteen hundred and one.

2. It shall be unlawful at any time in said counties to take or destroy
the eggs of any English or Mongolian pheasants, or to catch the birds
with nets or traps in said counties.

3. The possession, except for the purpose of breeding, of any English
or Mongolian pheasants, whether dead or alive, by any person, shall be
prima facie evidence that such person has violated this law.

4, Any person convicted of violating any section of this law shall be
fined not less than ten dollars, and two dollars and fifty cents shall, in
addition, be taxed as part of the costs, which shall go to the informer.

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