Chap. 982.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 4, 1892, en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 161, session 1S8vl-"02, for the pro-
tection of terrapins.

Approved March 4, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an
act to amend and re-enact chapter one hundred and sixty-one, session
eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
for the protection of terrapins, be amended and re-enacted so as to reac
as follows:

§ 161. If any person after the first day of May and before the fifteenth
day of August of any year shall take terrapins or take or disturb terra.
pin eggs in the waters of the counties of Accomac, Northampton, North.
umberland, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Richmond, Essex, Isle of Wight,
Surry, Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, James City, New Kent and
Charles City, or shall have terrapins in his possession, or shall buy o1
offer them for sale in said counties, he shall forfeit two hundred dollars
and be confined in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. And if any
person after the first day of May and before the fifteenth day of August
of any year shall take terrapins with a seine, net or weir in the counties
aforesaid he shall forfeit his boats, seines and nets and pay a fine of!
two hundred and fifty dollars, and be confined in the county jail not less
than thirty days; but this act shall not be construed as preventing any
person who has taken or purchased terrapins at any time other than be-
tween the first day of May and fifteenth day of August in any year from
keeping the same in terrapin pounds or ponds during said period.

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