Chap. 606.—An ACT to amend and re-enact un act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate killing, capturing, hunting.
buying, selling, or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys,
‘hares, robin redbreast, and all native pheasants in the county of Albemarle,
and to prohibit the catching of same in traps, or the destruction of the
eggs of the same in said county, approved January 25, 1898, and to apply
the provisions of the same to the city of Charlottesville, approved January
26, 1900.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Ba it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, sell-
ing, or offering for ‘sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys, native
pheasants, in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of
same in traps or the destruction of the eggs of same in said county,
approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and
so amended by an act approved January twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. It shall be unlawful to kill, capture, hunt, buy, sell, or offer for
sale, in the county of Albemarle or in the city of Charlottesville, any
partridges (or quail) between the first day of January and the first dav
of November, any wild turkeys or native pheasants between the fifteenth
day of January and the first day of November of each year; or any robin
redbreast, between the first day of April and the first day of November;

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or at any time to take or capture any of the said birds in traps or to
take or destroy the eggs of same in said county or city.

$2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be held
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than five nor more
than twenty dollars for each offense, the informer to receive one-half
of ihe fine, or, in the discretion of the justice of the peace, the offender
may be confined in the county jail not more than ten days for each
offense.

§ 3. Possession of any of the above game at the time when it is unlaw-
ful to kill, capture, hunt, buy, sell, or offer for sale the same, shall be
prima facie evidence of the violation of this act.

§ 4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

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