Chap. 428.—An ACT for the protection of game and birds in the counties o!
Buckingham and Cumberland.

Approved February 21, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shal]
not be lawful for any person to kill or capture in any way or to offer for
sale any partridges or quail or ruffled grouse or pheasant or wild turkeys
in Buckingham and Cumberland counties except from the fifteenth day
vf October to the fifteenth day of February, or to kill at any time any
mocking-birds or cardinal birds in said counties. If any person violate
any provision of the preceding section he shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be fined for each offence two dollars. In any
prosecution for the violation of the preceding section proof of the pos-
session of any of the birds mentioned during the time in which their
capture or killing or sale is prohibited by this act shall be prima facie
evidence of the guilt of the person having in his possession any such
bird.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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