Chap. 1002.—An ACT for the protection of game in the counties of Alleghany,
Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Highland, and Rockbridge, and prescribing penalties
for violation of same, and to prohibit non-residents of the state of Virginia
from hunting or killing game in any of the said counties without first obtain-
ing a license therefor, except such non-residents as are bona fide owners in fee
eimple of real estate in one or more of said counties, and prescribing the license
tax upon such non-residents.

Approved March 7, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
e unlawful for any person to kill or capture, or chase with dogs, deer
ithin the counties of Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Highland,
r Rockbridge between the twenty-fifth day of December and the
weutieth day of October of each year.
2. That it shall be unlawful for any person to kill or capture any wild
turkey or pheasant between the twenty-fifth day of December and the
fifteenth day of October in each year, or to kill or capture any partridge
between the twenty-fifth day of December and the first day of November
of each year.

3. Nor shall it be lawful for any person at any time, being a non-
resident of the state of Virginia, to kill or capture or chase with dogs,
or to hunt for the purpose of killing or capturing any deer, wild tur-
key, pheasant, or partridge within any of the counties above named,
unless he shall be a bona fide landowner in fee simple in the county
in which he shall so hunt for the purpose aforesaid (or first obtain the
consent of the owner of the land on which he shall so hunt), or shall
first pay to the treasurer of the county in which he shall so hunt a
license tax therefor as hereinafter provided.

4. Any non-resident of the state of Virginia who shall desire to hunt
for the purpose of killing or capturing, or chasing with dogs, any deer
within any of the counties aforesaid, or who shall desire to hunt for thie
purpose of killing or capturing any wild turkey, pheasant, or partridze
within any of the said counties, shall first obtain from a commissioner
of the revenue of such county a license therefor, and shall pay to thie
treasurer of such county for such privilege a fee of ten dollars, and to
such commissioner of the revenue a fee of one dollar for issuing such
license, except that any non-resident, who is at the time that he so
desires to hunt in any of the counties aforesaid, who is the bona fide
owner in fee simple of any real estate within said county (or shall obtain
permission of a landowner, as aforesaid), shall not be required to ob-
tain such license; and such license when so issued shall only extend to
the county in which it is so issued, and shall only confer on such non-
resident, as to any and all such game as is hereinbefore named, thie
same privilege as to hunting as if he were a resident of this state.

5. The possession of any fresh venison or fresh deer skin, or the
possession of any wild turkey, pheasant, or partridge by any person
within the period aforesaid in any of the counties aforesaid, shall he
prima facie evidence against such persons of the killing or capturing of
the deer, wild turkey, pheasant, or partridge within the meaning of
this act.

6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall he
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before
any justice of the peace or hefore any court of any county in which
such offense was committed, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars
nor more than fiftv dollars for each offense, and, unless such fine as mav
he imposed by such justice or court shall be paid when the same shall
he so imposed, the justice or the court imposing such fine may commit
the offender to jail until the same shall be paid: provided, however, that
in any such case the imprisonment of such offender shall not exceed
thirty days.

7. The leense tax hereinbefore provided to be paid by non-residents
of the state of Virginia shall be passed by the treasurer of the county in
which the same shall he paid, to the eredit of the county school fund,
and shall be by him disbursed and accounted for as other county
school funds.
8. All acts and parts of acts heretofore enacted or now in force so far
as they relate to the killing or capturing or chasing with dogs of
deer, or of the killing or capturing of wild. turkeys, pheasants, or
partridges within the said counties ot Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Bote-
tourt, Highland, and Rockbridge, or either of them, are hereby repealed.

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