Chap. 686.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled “An act
to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and North-

ampton,’’ a8 approved March 5, 1894, and amended by an act approved January
18, 1896.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled ‘‘An act to protect wild water-fowls and other
game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton,’’ approved March
fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as amended and re-enacted by
an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section three of an act enti-
tled an act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of
Accomac and Northampton, approved January, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. It shall not be lawful for any person to shoot or kill rabbits (or
hares) or partridges (sometimes known as quail) in said counties of
Accomac and Northampton between the fifteenth day of January and
the fifteenth day of November of each year, or take or destroy the eggs
of partridges or quail at any time; or to shoot at or in any manner kill
or destroy the bird known as the marsh-hen before the fifteenth day of
September in any season, or take its eggs Jater than the first day of
June; or to shoot or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known ag
the willet before the fifteenth of August in any season, or to take its e¢us
at any time; or to shoot or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known
as the gull or strider at any time, or take its egus later in the season than
the fourth day of July; or to kill or capture woodcock between the first
day of April and the first day of November in any season; or to capture
for sale or transportation, or kill the mocking-bird, brown thrush, car-
dinal or red bird, robin or red-breast, house martin or starling, or to
destroy their nests. If any person violate any of the provisions of this
section he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined ten dollars for each offence, and imprisoned in jail
until the fine is paid, but not exceeding ten days.

Any person found violating this act may be seized without warrant by
any sheriff or constable, or any citizen of the commonwealth, and car-
ried before a justice of the county in which the offence was committed,
and be by him disposed of in any case. And in the prosecution of any
person for the violation of any section of this act the proof of any such
wild fowl, game or bird in his possession shall be deemed prima facie
evidence of his guilt.

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