Chap. 802.—An ACT for the protection of quail (or partridges) and other game
In the counties of Culpeper and Orange.

Approved March 3, 1598.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful for any person to kill, capture, buy or sell p: irtridyres or quail,
pheasant, or rullled grouse, rabbits, or hares, or wild turkeys in the
counties of Culpeper and Orange, between the fifteenth d: ay of January
and the first day of Nove ember of each year; that it shall be unlawful
for any person to kill, capture, buy or sell w nodeock in the counties of
Culpeper and Orange from the first day of February to the first day of
July of each vear; that it shall be unlawful for any person to kill, cap-
ture, buy or sell the red-breasted robin from the first day of May to the
first day of October of each year; that it shall be unlawful for any per-
son to kill, capture, buy or ecll any Mongolan pheasants, mocking-
birds, cardinal birds, or red birds in the counties of Culpeper and Orange
at any time during the year; that it shall be unlawful for any person to
chase, shoot, kill or capture deer in the counties of Culpeper and Orange
from the first day of February to the thirty-first dav of August of each
year, and the possession of the game enumerated in this section shall be
deemed a violation of this act.

Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on the conviction thereof shall be fined for each
offence not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars, and upon
the failure to pay fine inflicted may be confined in the jail until fine is
paid: provided, the term of imprisonment shall not, in any case, exceed
thirty days.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.