Chap. 374.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2083 of the Code of 1887, in
relation to the fishing with pound nets in the waters of the eastern side of
Chesapeake bay.

Approved March 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty hundred and eighty-three of the Code of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in relation to fishing with
pound nets in the waters on the eastern side of Chesapeake bay, be
amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 2083. It shall be unlawful for any person to fish with a purse net or
pound net in any of the rivers of this State, or within one mile of the
mouth of any river, except that the pound net may be used in the Pianki-
tank river, or to fish with purse nets in creeks or within half a mile of
the shore of the Chesapeake bay within the limits of Elizabeth City,
Accomac, and Northampton counties, or to set any pounds, or to take fish
by means thereof, in any creek within the counties of Accomac and
Northampton, or in the Chesapeake bay, between the first day of May
and the first day of June in any year on the eastern side of said bay, or
to set any pound or purse nets, or to take fish by means thereof, within
one and one-half miles of the shore of the said Chesapeake bay within
the limits of Norfolk county between the first day of May and the fif-
teenth day of October in any year.

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