Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, to prevent non-residents from being concerned or interested in fishing
in the waters of the Commonwealth for the purpose of manufacturing the
same into oil, fish scrap or manure, or in such manufacture.

Approved March 11, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2095. No non-resident of this State shall take or catch any fish in
the waters thereof for the purpose of converting the same into oil, fish
scrap or manure; nor shall any non-resident be concerned or interested
with any resident as partner, stockholder of a corporation or otherwise,
in taking or catching fish in any of the waters of this State to he manu-
factured into oil, fish scrap or manure, or in such manufacture. Nor
shall any resident of this State be concerned or interested with any non-
resident as partner, stockholder of a corporation or otherwise, in taking
or catching fish in any of the waters of this State to be manufactured
into oil, fish scrap or manure, or in such manufacture, or knowingly
permit any non-resident to use his name for either purpose. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less
than five hundred dollars nor exceeding two thousand dollars, and all
his interest in the vessel, boat or craft, and in all purse nets, seines,
fishing tackle, machinery or other thing used in taking or catching fish
or manufacturing them into oil, fish scrap or manure, and if he be a
stockholder of a corporation, all his stock or other interest therein shall
be forfeited to the Commonwealth.