Chap. 8.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and four of an act entitlec
‘‘An act to prevent the extermination of partridges (or quail) in the state o

Virginia,’”’ approved January 27, 1896

In force December 15, 1897.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section:
one and four of the act entitled ‘‘ An act to prevent the exterminatior
of partridges (or quail) in the state of Virginia,’”? approved January
twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re.
enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to kill or capture any
partridges (or quail) in the state of Virginia until the tenth day o:
December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, or to offer for sale o
buy any partridges (or quail) so unlawfully killed or captured in saic
state within the time above specified: provided, however, that the fol.
lowing counties shall be exempt from the operations of this amendment,
and the act amended shall remain in full force as to such counties, to-wit
Albemarle, Greene, Fauquier, Loudoun, Rockingham, Culpeper, Madi.
son, Rappahannock, Fairfax, Prince William, Alexandria, Tazewell,
Russell, Buchanan, Dickenson, Shenandoah, Frederick, € larke, Page,
Washington, Grayson and Smyth.

S$. The oper ration of section two thousand and seventy-nine of the
code of Virginia and of any special game law, so far as it relates to this
particular game and is in conflict With this act, is hereby suspended
until the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

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